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Author Avashia, Neema, author.

Title Another Appalachia : coming up queer and Indian in a mountain place / Neema Avashia.

Edition First edition.
Publication Info. Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2022.
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b2621501~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  975.437 AVA    AVAILABLE
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Description 165 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Contents Directions to a vanishing place -- Chemical bonds -- Nine forms of the Goddess -- Be like Wilt -- The blue-red divide -- City mouse/country mouse -- Finding the holy in an unholy coconut -- Wine-warmth -- Magic dust -- A Hindu hillbilly elegy -- Neighbors -- The Hindu hillbilly spice company -- Shame-shame -- Our armor -- A history of guns -- Present-life hair -- Only-generation Appalachian -- Thanks, y'all.
Summary "Examines both the roots and the resonance of Neema Avashia's identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman. With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways, religion, sports, standards of beauty, social media, and gun culture"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Avashia, Neema.
East Indian American women -- West Virginia -- Kanawha County -- Biography.
East Indian American lesbians -- Biography.
Gujarati Americans -- Biography.
Kanawha County (W. Va.) -- Social life and customs -- Anecdotes.
Cross Lanes (W. Va.) -- Biography.
ISBN 9781952271434 (ebook)
9781952271427 (paperback)
1952271428 (paperback)
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