Brown Neon Journal This is a love story

This is a love story and a story about betrayal—not between lovers but between a mother and a daughter

it has been the winner of numerous prizes

The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives

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Brown Neon Journal This is a love storyby Raquel Gutirrez 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 Gutirrezs debut essay collection, Brown Neon, gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutirrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate