Full Description
An inclusive LGBTQ+ travel anthology, Edge of the World explores what it means to be a queer person moving through the world.
These lively essays by luminary writers offer a queer perspective on how people experience other cultures and how other cultures receive queer people. This anthology of essays includes the perspectives of gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer, and trans American authors from multiple ethnic identities, showcasing the travel writing of both established and emerging authors across a wide age spectrum to address these central questions. Contributors include Alexander Chee, Edmund White, Daisy Hernández, Putsata Reang, Alex Marzano-Lesnevich, Denne Michele Norris, Garrard Conley, Andrew Ellis Evans, Nicole Shawan Junior, Raluca Albu, KB Brookins, Genevieve Hudson, Zoë Sprankle, Sara Orozco, and Calvin Gimpelevich. Their essays take the reader to different areas of the world including Spain, Ukraine, Florida, New York City, Mexico, Cambodia, Russia, Senegal, Berlin, and more.
Contents
Alden Jones - We Find Each Other: A Prelude
Andrew Ellis Evans - My Cohort
Nicole Shawan Junior - A Journey Through Motherhood and the Motherland
Alexander Chee - Mirador
Putsata Reang - The Return
Garrard Conley - The Romantics
Daisy Hernández - La Cubana
Genevieve Hudson - Myth Maker
Zoë Sprankle - For a While, This Was True
Denne Michele Norris - Mother's Day
Edmund White - Kicking Back in Key West
Alex Marzano-Lesnevich - Towards a Fight
Raluca Albu - The Museum of Us: St. Petersburg, Russia, 2017
Calvin Gimpelevich - Future Past
Sara Orozco - Lessons in Digging and Replanting
KB Brookins - The Proudest Texan in Mérida
