Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place Binding:Paperback Longlisted for the Center for

Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's 2022 First Novel Prize

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Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place Binding:Paperback Longlisted for the Center for"Commands your attention from the first page to the last word." Morgan Jerkins When Neema Avashia tells people where she's from, their response is nearly always a disbelieving "There are Indian people in West Virginia?" A queer Asian American teacher and writer, Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes. But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class, gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world today: how