Desire Lines: A Memoir

"Thrilled to have this explosive and daring collection in my hands. More, please."—Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist, author of The Devil’s Highway

Desire Lines is a fearless, lyric memoir-in-essays in which Kristen Millares Young excavates her matrilineage and the submerged histories of the divine feminine, blending personal narrative, mythology, and cultural critique to reclaim women's voices, maternal power, and selfhood across generations.

In her debut memoir, award-winning n...