Title
The Other Side of Loneliness from Eleven Ways to Love: Essays
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Description
People have been telling their love stories for thousands of years. It is the greatest common human experience. And yet, love stories coach us to believe that love is selective, somehow, that it can be boxed in and easily defined. This is a collection of eleven remarkable essays that widen the frame of reference: transgender romance; body image issues; race relations; disability; polyamory; class differences; queer love; long distance; caste; loneliness; the single life; the bad boy syndrome . . . and so much more.
Pieced together with a dash of poetry and a whole lot of love, featuring a multiplicity of voices and a cast of unlikely heroes and heroines, this is a book of essays that show us, with empathy, humour and wisdom, that there is no such thing as the love that dare not speak its name.
ISBN
9780670090815
Publication Date
2018
Publisher
Penguin/Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Keywords
poems, India, love, dating, romance, transgender, body image, race, disability, polyamory, economic classes, queer, long distance relationships, loneliness
Disciplines
Poetry
Recommended Citation
Vangani, Preeti, "The Other Side of Loneliness from Eleven Ways to Love: Essays" (2018). 2018 USF Faculty and Staff Books. 17.
https://repository.usfca.edu/faculty_books_2018/17
Comments
Eleven Ways to Love is a collection of essays.
Contents:
Foreword - Gulzar
A Letter to My Lover(s) - Dhrubo Jyoti
The Shade of You - Anushree Majumdar
Size Matters - Sangeeta
A Cross-Section of My Bad Boyfriends - Meenakshi Reddy Madhavan
When New York Was Cold and I Was Lonely - Maroosha Muzaffar
The Aristoprats - Shrayana Bhattacharya
The One but Not the Only - D
Where Are My Lesbians? - Sreshtha
The Other Side of Loneliness - Preeti Vangani
I Am Blind, so Is Love! - Nidhi Goyal
The Smartphone Freed Me: Dating as a Trans Woman - Nadika Nadja