I Can’t Offer Up My Culture for Consumption

As I prepare for the paperback launch of my debut novel The Girls in Queens, I share with a group of writers and artists that I’m putting together a Book Club Kit. This has become a fairly common digital offering; a colorful PDF of brief insights from the author, a recipe or two related to […] The post I Can’t Offer Up My Culture for Consumption appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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