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I Hope We Choose Love- A Trans Girl's Notes From The End Of The World

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 Winner, American Library Association Stonewall Book Awards Honor Book 2020

Winner, Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and Gender-Variant Literature 2020

In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, acclaimed poet and essayist Kai Cheng Thom dives deep into the questions that haunt social movements today. With the author's characteristic eloquence and honesty, I Hope We Choose Love proposes heartfelt solutions on the topics of violence, complicity, family, vengeance, and forgiveness. Taking its cues from contemporary thought leaders in the transformative justice movement such as adrienne maree brown and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, this provocative book is a call for nuance in a time of political polarization, for healing in a time of justice, and for love in an apocalypse.

About The Author:

Kai Cheng Thom is a writer, performance artist, and community healer in Toronto. She is the author of the novel Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars: A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir Metonymy Press), the essay collection I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes at the End of the World (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book), the poetry collection a place called No Homeland (an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book in 2018), and the children's picture books From the Stars in the Sky to the Fish in the Sea, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching and Wai-Yant Li, and For Laika, the Dog Who Learned the Names of the Stars, illustrated by Kai Yun Ching. Kai Cheng won the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ Emerging Writers in 2017.

Page Count: 155

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Customer Reviews (4.3 / 5 · 3 reviews)

Joseph I. ★★★★★

The way she ties personal heartbreak to larger political realities feels both devastating and necessary. This is the kind of book you'll want to press into a friend's hands.

Ryan ★★★★☆

I found the essay on community care during crisis really stayed with me, though the book is slimmer than I expected for the price. It's a powerful collection that earns its place on any shelf.

Andrew ★★★★☆

The essays on chosen family and queer grief hit me harder than I expected, especially the one about loving people you can't save. A couple of pieces felt repetitive and circled the same idea, but the Stonewall honor is well deserved. Kept it on my nightstand and read one entry a night.