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How Dare We! Write reviewed by Tom Holmes (The Line Break)
How Dare We! Write Review by Tom Holmes, check it out!
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LOVE IMAGINED audience and message
I was recently asked the following questions by a reviewer:
1. What is the primary/most important message in Love Imagined and how do you think readers will relate to it?The message I was trying to express is how history/historical events play into one’s identity. I always wanted to write a book that paralleled historical events across color lines in the USA. However, it was too overwhelming for me to find the emotional energy to do so, but I was able to, at least, tell my own story: the journey of a Chinese Black woman who grew up in South Minneapolis passing for white. My publisher went out of his way to help me get permission to include quotes that were historically relevant.
2. Also, is it for a certain, limited audience that the book will have good/meaningful appeal?
Actually, no. Scandinavian friends from high school have found connections to the story beyond location. One friend actually said, knowing the main message was one of a mixed race identity, there was much she could relate to. Also, at a recent reading, a younger, mixed woman said my story was her story. I was concerned that my age, 66 years old, would have younger people poopooing it; but, I’m discovering they can relate. At the same reading a married couple, two young men, explained that one of them was searching to know more about his mixed identity. I am also hoping my story will have an impact in women’s studies and ethnic studies classrooms.
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REVIEWERS WELCOME! LOVE IMAGINED a mixed race memoir
Please contact Modern History Press, victor@lhpress.com, if you have a serious interest in reviewing LOVE IMAGINED. Reviews in multicultural journals, mixed race journals, feminist journals/Amazon, Goodreads, etc. are more than welcome.
Love Imagined: A Mixed Race Memoir
Imprint: Modern History Press
Author: Sherry Quan Lee
Foreword: Lola OsunkoyaISBN-13: PB 978-1-61599 $ 29.95 / eBook $ 5.95
Trim: 6.69 x 9.61 (158 pp)
Audience: General Adult
Pub Date: 08/01/2014
Synopsis: Love Imagined is an American woman’s unique struggle for identity.“Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories,
Sherry Quan Lee shares her truth with fierce courage and strength in Love Imagined. … Quan
Lee crafts a riveting tale of Minnesota life set within the backdrop of racial segregation, the
Cold War, the sexual revolution while navigating it all through the lens of her multi-layered
identities. A true demonstration of the power of an intersectional perspective.”–Kandace Creel Falcón, Ph.D., Director of Women’s and Gender Studies, Minnesota State University, Moorhead
“Love Imagined: this fascinating, delightful, important book. This imagining love, this longing for love. This poverty of No Love, this persistent racism, sexism, classism, ageism. The pain these evils cause the soul…This is an important document of a mixed-race contemporary woman, a memoir about her family lineages back to slavery, back to China, back to early Minneapolis, and about the struggle of finding herself in all of these.”
–Sharon Doubiago, author of My Father’s Love
“When I read Sherry’s story [Love Imagined], I recognized feelings and meanings that mirrored mine. I felt a sense of release, an exhale, and I knew I could be understood by her in a way that some of my family and friends are unable to grasp, through no fault of their own. It’s the Mixed experience. Sherry Lee’s voice, her story, will no doubt touch and heal many who read it.”
–Lola Osunkoya, MA Founder of Neither/Both LLC, Mixed-Race Community Building and Counseling
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Cha: An Asian Literary Journal-Book Review
Sometimes I do “Google” myself to see if I’m visible. Sometimes I am surprised that someone has reviewed one of my books. I appreciate and learn from book reviews. Michael Tsang made the following comment, something I had never thought about:
” The best poem of the collection is the second last one, “That’s Where She is Now.” For the first time, there is not an “I” on the entire page, and the poem goes beyond the first-person narration of the other works, offering immense imagination and reflection…”
My work, for better or worse, does focus on the “I”-the me me me me me- because I write memoir, but I hadn’t recognized that I actually departed from first person in at least one poem! To me, that means I, unknowingly perhaps, reached at least a small amount of incite into my life.
Thank you Michael Tsang for your incite into my work.
http://www.asiancha.com/content/view/1035/314/
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