When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen Julian Turner — Lydia Unsworth

— Lydia Unsworth

praise and lament

all of it rooted in place

Milne and Christina Rossetti sit alongside Roger McGough

a Vegetable Ewe

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities by Chen Chen Julian Turner — Lydia UnsworthForeword by Jericho Brown In this ferocious and tender debut, Chen Chen investigates inherited forms of love and family the strained relationship between a mother and son, the cost of necessary goodbyes all from Asian American, immigrant and queer perspectives. Holding all accountable, this refreshingly candid and entertainingly provocative collection fully embraces the loss, grief, and abundant joy that come with charting ones own path in identity,