Brown Neon Journal A FINALIST FOR THE 2022

A FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

it has been the winner of numerous prizes

calm and nervous

The Light We Carry inspires readers to examine their own lives

and why the poison of racism lingers

Brown Neon Journal A FINALIST FOR THE 2022by Raquel Gutirrez A meditation on southwestern terrains, intergenerational queer dynamics, and surveilled brown artists that crosses physical and conceptual borders. Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree, Raquel Gutirrezs debut essay collection, Brown Neon, gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships. For Gutirrez, terrain is essential to understanding that no story, no matter how personal, is separate