Take My Name But Say It Slow Style:Hardcover who live as prisoners to

who live as prisoners to Arketta's landmasters and debt slavery

she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job

The Queens’ Ball follows the narrator Copi in his attempt to write a novel as life comes undone around him

always traveling

like something on the island is calling to her

Take My Name But Say It Slow Style:Hardcover who live as prisoners toBy: Thomas Dai A luminous memoir in essays exploring place, identity, and what it means to grow up queer and Asian in the American South. Thomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his mother called home. Seen another way, Nuocheng also contains the cheng of Chenggong: success. In one breath, his name speaks of a hometown, a geography, a half baked