"That woman could be you Co-written by two queer women (NAO + Alexander), That Woman Could Be You is an orphic documentary of the circadian, an archive of queer and quotidian rituals, an observant meditation on the ephemerality and defiance of chronic pain, desire, and grief as they manifest in daily acts. That Woman Could Be You lends a euphoric, nostalgic, and dreamlike beauty to the everydayness of the diurnal tasks of television watching, cooking, grocery shopping, washing dishes, dusting, cleaning, teaching, etc. Nao lives with pain post open-heart surgery and Alexander grieves the death of her brother. This fundamentally sapphic & feminist project explores moving through the world together as women, in Nao's case a queer Vietnamese woman, and the newness of their relationship. "The book, visually, looks stunning--reminds me of The Fear of Losing Eurydice by Julieta Campos--and the poems are so mundanely mystical that there's no difference between the physical and the spiritual, the 'me' and the 'you'." -- Marc Anthony Richardson, American Book Award winner, and author of Year of the Rat and Messiahs "If a love story has a beginning, middle, and end, then this is a book of the middle, of the hundred middles--of the rice, lemons, sweatpants , workdays, rented rooms--that deep connection is made of. Danger, death, and chronic pain wait in the dark, so "we [walk] home like two lamp posts." Familiar and strange, this wonderfully intimate, genre-bending book is a gift of trust to the reader. It's like finding a witty, lyrical letter handwritten on the back pages of a library book you never want to return." -- Brad Aaron Modlin, author of Everyone at this Party Has Two Names"-- Provided by publisher.
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