A profound meditation on race, inheritance, and queer mothering at the end of the world.
In a letter to her six-year-old daughter, Julietta Singh ventures toward a tender vision of the future, lifting up children's radical embrace of possibility as a model for how we might live. If we wish to survive looming political and ecological disasters, Singh urges, we must break from the conventions we have inherited and orient ourselves toward revolutionary paths that might yet set us free.
"The Breaks is amazing-I read the whole thing through in one sitting. It's got the heft and staying power of Baldwin's 'A Letter to My Nephew.'" -Lauren Berlant, author of Cruel Optimism
"If a book can be a hole cut in the side of an existence in order to escape it, or to find a way through what is otherwise impassable, then this is that kind of book ... How will we live in the new space that we keep making, through refusal but also adjustment, the...
