The Odysseys of Fally Dogswell

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(123 255 223 1)>I</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>t's summer. An American writer wanders Paris. After several years back home in New York the city is foreign and hostile resentful. Stones trip her. Strangers attack. Hey! Lesbian! Even her journal betrays her when French intrudes replacing her native tongue. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>As she struggles to express herself memories rise to the surface. There's the family nest. Her first crush in far- off Kentucky where churches spring up as ferociously as blackberry bushes. The banishment by her mother when she pronounces that word </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>lesbian</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>. Then her life in New York where she meets a woman herself cast adrift from Cuba by a violent wave of homophobia. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Drawn from her diaries this account of all her exiles is a lyrical meditation on memory language and foreignness itself. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>This work is the second of a trilogy. </span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Translated from the original French. </em></p><p><br></p>