Becoming Ammi: A Queer, Desi Journey into Parenthood

From the award-winning author of Another Appalachia, an intimate portrait of queer motherhood and mother-loss-with meditations on grief, familial legacies, and selfhood

In Becoming Ammi, author and educator Neema Avashia reflects on a new stage of her life: becoming a parent.

Through short reflective chapters, Avashia weaves together stories of early motherhood as a Desi, queer, Appalachian, and non-gestational parent (a parent who did not physically carry or give birth to the child).

Becomin...