Map of My Want Assimilation and many other voices

and many other voices

and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival

she moves into an apartment with her first serious girlfriend and tries to content herself with their comfortable relationship

and as critiques of systemic oppression forcing some to countdown their last heartbeat

THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Map of My Want Assimilation and many other voicesFrom the critically acclaimed author of HoodWitch, Faylita Hicks's second collection explores the question, Where do our desires take us? An offspring of Audre Lorde's seminal essay "Uses of the Erotic," Hicks's A Map of My Want follows a nonbinary femme as they explore the sensual intersection of the personal and the political, a crossroads to which their sexual liberation brought them after their escape from a religious cult. Lyrically, Hicks