When Trying to Return Home Format:Hardcover iconic magician Violet Volk performed

iconic magician Violet Volk performed her greatest trick yet: vanishing mid-act

has little choice but to go along

The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind of Woman & I Hope This Finds You Well

adept demon summoner

even from across the other side of the ocean

When Trying to Return Home Format:Hardcover iconic magician Violet Volk performedA dazzling debut collection spanning a century of Black American and Afro Latino life in Puerto Rico, Pittsburgh, Louisiana, Miami, and beyond and an evocative meditation on belonging, the meaning of home, and how we secure freedom on our own terms Profoundly moving and powerful, the stories in When Trying to Return Home dig deeply into the question of belonging. A young woman is torn between overwhelming love for her mother and the need to break free