Map of My Want Assimilation and brilliant with the pressures

and brilliant with the pressures of its arrival

and many other voices

THE RUNAWAY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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Map of My Want Assimilation and brilliant with the pressuresFrom 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