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"In the linked essays that make up her debut collection, ... Sejal Shah explores culture, language, family, and place. Throughout the collection, [she] reflects on what it means to make oneself visible and legible through writing in a country that struggles with race, and maps her identity as an American, South Asian American, writer of color, and feminist ... Her memoir in essays emerges as [she] wrestles with her experiences growing up and living in western New York, an area of stark racial and economic segregation, as the daughter of Gujarati immigrants from India and Kenya"--