num_pages: 168
description: When Trisha Low moves west her journey is motivated by the need to arrive somewhere bettersomeplace utopian like revolution; or safe like home; or even clarifying like identity. Instead she faces the end of her relationships a family whose values she has difficulty sharing and Americas casual racism sexism and homophobia. In this book-length essay the problem of how to account for one's life comes to the foresliding unpredictably between memory speculation self-criticism and art criticism Low seeks answers that she knows she won't find. Attempting to reconcile her desires with her radical politics she asks: do our quests to fulfill our deepest wishes propel us forward or keep us trapped in the rubble of our deteriorating world?
language: English
title: Socialist Realism
publisher: Coffee House Press