num_pages: 144
description: A poetry compilation recounting a womans journey from self-loathing to self-acceptance confusion to clarity and bitterness to forgivenessFollowing in the footsteps of such category killers as Milk and Honey and Whiskey Words &amp; a Shovel I  Fariha Risns poetry book is a collection of her thoughts as a young queer Muslim femme navigating the difficulties of her intersectionality. Simultaneously this compilation unpacks the contentious relationship that exists between Risn and her mother her platonic and romantic heartbreaks and the cognitive dissonance felt as a result of being so divided among her broad spectrum of identities.
language: English
title: How to Cure a Ghost
publisher: Harry N. Abrams