Love Imagined

Love Imagined is an American woman’s unique struggle for identity.Finalist - 27th annual Minnesota Book Awards (Memoir & Creative Nonfiction. Joining the long history of women of color fighting to claim literary space to tell our stories Sherry Quan Lee shares her truth with fierce courage and strength in Love Imagined. ... Quan Lee crafts a riveting tale of Minnesota life set within the backdrop of racial segregation the Cold War the sexual revolution while navigating it all through the lens of her multi-layered identities. A true demonstration of the power of an intersectional perspective.--Kandace Creel Falcón Ph.D. Director of Women’s and Gender Studies Minnesota State University Moorhead. Love Imagined: this fascinating delightful important book. This imagining love this longing for love. This poverty of No Love this persistent racism sexism classism ageism. The pain these evils cause the soul...This is an important document of a mixed-race contemporary woman a memoir about her family lineages back to slavery back to China back to early Minneapolis and about the struggle of finding herself in all of these.--Sharon Doubiago author of My Father’s Love. When I read Sherry’s story [Love Imagined] I recognized feelings and meanings that mirrored mine. I felt a sense of release an exhale and I knew I could be understood by her in a way that some of my family and friends are unable to grasp through no fault of their own. It’s the Mixed experience. Sherry Lee’s voice her story will no doubt touch and heal many who read it.--Lola Osunkoya MA Founder of Neither/Both LLC Mixed-Race Community Building and Counseling. Learn more at www.SherryQuanLee.comFrom Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com. BIO002000 Biography & Autobiography: Cultural HeritageSOC028000 Social Science: Women's Studies - GeneralSOC043000 Social Science: Ethnic Studies - Asian American Studies