
Love Imagined
A Mixed Race Memoir
Sherry Quan Lee(Author)
Modern History Press
Published on 15. May 2015
Book
Hardback
158 pages
978-1-61599-234-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.com
From Modern History Press www.ModernHistoryPress.com
BIO002000 Biography & Autobiography: Cultural Heritage
SOC028000 Social Science: Women's Studies - General
SOC001000 Social Science: Ethnic Studies - African American Studies
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Language
English
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 175 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
464 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-61599-234-8 (9781615992348)
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Sherry Quan Lee, MFA, University of Minnesota, is the author of Chinese Blackbird, a memoir in verse, Love
Imagined: a mixed race memoir (a Minnesota Book Award Finalist); and, editor of How Dare We! Write: a multicultural
creative writing discourse.
Teagan Trif Merrifield attended Minneapolis Media Arts Institute for computer modeling. Her passion is bringing
what's inside of the mind to life. And You Can Love Me is her first venture into picture book illustration.
Kyra Gaylor studied education at Southwest Minnesota State University. Most of her teaching experience has been at the kindergarten and preschool levels. She loves to create. She loves to collect and repurpose vintage treasures.