The Breaks, Julietta Singh
The Breaks, Julietta Singh
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The Breaks

Author: Julietta Singh

Narrator: Julietta Singh

Unabridged: 4 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/14/2021

Synopsis

A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the worldIn a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh writes toward a tender vision of the world, offering children’s radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. In order to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and begin to orient ourselves toward more equitable and revolutionary paths.The Breaks celebrates queer family-making, communal living, and Brown girlhood, complicating the stark binaries that shape contemporary US discourse. With nuance and generosity, Singh reveals the connections among the crises humanity faces—climate catastrophe, extractive capitalism, and the violent legacies of racism, patriarchy, and colonialism—inviting us to move through the breaks toward a tenable future.

About Julietta Singh

Julietta Singh is a writer and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization, current ecological crisis, and queer-feminist futures. She is the author of two previous books: No Archive Will Restore You and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements. She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia with her child and her best friend.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Carolyn on April 28, 2024

Literacko mi się podobało, ale wolałabym zobaczyć dobrowolnie turniej w lolu niż zapalić skuna z autorką......more

Goodreads review by Laila on February 13, 2022

A marvellous book, my first of Julietta Singh and definitely not the last. I’m grateful at being given the chance to join her most intimate experience of rising a child in todays world. She combined in this book solid ideological reflections with highly emotional experiences of grounding a mixed rac......more

Goodreads review by Areeb on September 05, 2021

Early on, Julietta Singh outlines her place as a mother being this "endless task of reading narratives against the grain, of resisting the mainstream's consumptive ease." The formal conceit of the book may be a letter to her kid daughter, she quickly distances herself enough to not simplify ideas an......more

Goodreads review by Jowix on May 25, 2024

4+ Wzrusz......more

Goodreads review by patsy_thebooklover on June 12, 2024

Jedna z najlepszych i ulubionych książek tego roku. "Przełomy" to sugestywny, świetlisty, przejmujący esej napisany w formie listu do 6-letniej córki. O tożsamości rasowej, seksualnej, wspólnotowej. O rodzicielstwie w czasach katastrof politycznych, klimatycznych, kulturowych. O odsuwaniu się od dzi......more

Quotes

“In…the beauty of her insights…she exquisitely links theory and poetics to her own fears, insecurities, and certainty that one day her child will need to break away from her. This is a stunning work.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“This is a lens-shifting book…It takes you into the experience of coming of age as a Brown girl who stands in the shadow of a society that fails to tell its whole truth and tries to hide its ugliness…Singh brings brown girls into the sun, and makes you want to change the ways of the world for our young people and for us all.”  Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine

“Singh’s clarity of thought, vulnerability, and passion for social justice all render this well-structured essay a pleasure to read.” Kirkus Reviews

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