Brown Neon
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A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders. Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutiérrez's debut essay collection Brown Neon gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutierrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate from the space where it unfolds. Whether contemplating the value of adobe as both vernacular architecture and commodified art object, highlighting the feminist wounding and transphobic apparitions haunting the multi-generational lesbian social fabric, or recalling a failed romance, Gutiérrez traverses complex questions of gender, class, identity, and citizenship with curiosity and nuance.
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"While the text has a tendency to meander, readers who stick with it will fine a bold and brave debut collection from an intriguing new literary voice ..."
"Gutierrez meditates on geography, gender, creativity, and love in her lyrical debut collection."
"An essay can't listen, but these come close, leaving room for questions left unanswered and realities left unlived."
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