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it has been the winner of numerous prizes

And while 1984 has come and gone

and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year

Brown Neon Journal and why the poison ofby Raquel Gutirrez A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders. Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutirrezs debut essay collection, Brown Neon, gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutirrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate