urban disorders

<p class=ql-align-justify><strong>Natasha Deonarain</strong> paints a vivid post-pandemic landscape that takes the reader on a journey of love loss and fragility. While peeling back disturbing layers of our dystopian lives she nevertheless weaves a resilient spirit of courage throughout the book that fortifies hope for our future. The reader begins submerged in the forced happiness of city life. This is a time and place where we binge netflix- / fist-stuff slapstick down your throat; a haunting acquiescence that leaves us willing to do anything to feed the blood-thirsty hound. The journey continues through the lonely desert-scape of Arizona sweeps across the peaked mountains of Canada and into the smog-filled traffic jams of Colorado finally bursting through tempestuous purple skies to unveil a whole-world perspective contained in our secret prayers for Mother Earth. Her last poem is not so much an end to our journey but a wake-up call for a new beginning a dream-like utopia that truly belongs to every one of us should we choose to claim it-A lover's candied kiss under an indigo sky and stars- / Of infinite possibility.</p><p><br></p>