Home is not a place you can reach by train or plane. It’s something you carry with you.
Uprooted from her childhood in Germany and set adrift in the American Midwest, Maureen was raised by a kind but neglectful mother who loved Jesus more than her own child and a stern, disinterested grandmother who waxed nostalgic about Nazi Germany. Growing up queer and isolated, Maureen often felt unmoored and unloved.
Years later, Maureen reflects upon her complicated past. Queen of Snails follows Maureen through time and memory in her quest to untangle the trauma passed down to her over three generations of women. Part memoir and part family history, Queen of Snails is a beautifully drawn, powerful story that examines and transmutes the emotional baggage of violence, abandonment, and displacement.
- ISBN10 1637790368
- ISBN13 9781637790366
- Publish Date 29 November 2022
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Pennsylvania State University Press
- Imprint Graphic Mundi
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 232
- Language English