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Socialist Realism

Trisha Low
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Published: September 26, 2019
ISBN: 9781566895514
168 pages, No
Country of publication: United States

£12.99

When Trisha Low moves west, her journey is motivated by the need to arrive “somewhere better”―someplace utopian, like revolution; or safe, like home; or even clarifying, like identity. Instead, she faces the end of her relationships, a family whose values she has difficulty sharing, and America’s casual racism, sexism, and homophobia. In this book-length essay, the problem of how to account for one’s life comes to the fore―sliding unpredictably between memory, speculation, self-criticism, and art criticism, Low seeks answers that she knows she won’t find. Attempting to reconcile her desires with her radical politics, she asks: do our quests to fulfil our deepest wishes propel us forward, or keep us trapped in the rubble of our deteriorating world?

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