The Breaks

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In The Breaks, Julietta Singh pens a luminous and moving letter to her six year-old daughter about race, climate change, and inheritance.

At school, Singh's daughter is learning about history, society and culture but at home she must learn to challenge and interrogate these stories. As Singh and her daughter discuss subjects as wide-ranging and interconnected as race, the legacies of colonialism, queer family-making, mass consumption and climate catastrophe, their conversations reveal how our survival depends on breaking with the stories we've been told, and reimagining the world for the better.

Working in the tradition of James Baldwin, Ta-Nehisi Coates and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and bringing us right up to the present day, Singh presents an intimate and remarkable vision of present collapse and future possibility.

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'Julietta Singh's meditation to her daughter is an immeasurable gift... Withpoignant, aching, beautiful, and deeply loving prose, Singh brings Browngirls into the sun, and makes you want to change the ways of the world forour young people and for us all.' - Imani Perry, author of Breathe

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Julietta Singh is Associate Professor of English and Women,Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University ofRichmond in Virginia. A writer and academic, she works at the intersections of postcolonial studies, feminist and queer theory, and the environmental humanities. She is the author of Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements and No Archive Will Restore You.