Falling Back in Love with Being Human
Letters to Lost Souls
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107 pages · Released Aug 1, 2023 · Penguin
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This is an adult poetry collection addressing trauma, violence, and loss through a lens of radical compassion and healing. While thematically sophisticated and ultimately hopeful, it directly engages with domestic abuse, sexual assault, transphobia, and suicidal ideation—subjects requiring emotional maturity to process responsibly. The book celebrates self-acceptance and LGBTQ+ identity, but is better suited to older teens and adults navigating similar experiences or studying transformative justice frameworks.
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD “Required reading for the untamed soul . . . reminded me how to love others and myself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed A transformative collection of intimate and lyrical love letters that offer a path toward compas... SHORTLISTED FOR THE LEAGUE OF CANADIAN POETS PAT LOWTHER MEMORIAL AWARD “Required reading for the untamed soul . . . reminded me how to love others and myself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed A transformative collection of intimate and lyrical love letters that offer a path toward compassion, forgiveness, and self-acceptance. What happens when we imagine loving the people—and the parts of ourselves—that we do not believe are worthy of love? Kai Cheng Thom grew up a Chinese Canadian transgender girl in a hostile world. As an activist, counselor, conflict mediator, and spiritual healer, she's always pursued the same deeply personal mission: to embrace the revolutionary belief that every human being, no matter how hateful or horrible, is intrinsically sacred. But then Kai Cheng found herself in a crisis of faith, overwhelmed by the violence with which people treated one another, and barely clinging to the values and dreams she'd built her life around: justice, hope, love, and healing. Rather than succumb to despair and cynicism, she gathered all her rage and grief and took one last leap of faith: she wrote. She wrote letters that were prayers, or maybe poems, or perhaps magic spells. She wrote to the outcasts and runaways she calls her kin. She wrote to flawed but nonetheless lovable men, to people with good intentions who harm their own, to racists and transphobes seemingly beyond saving. What emerged was a blueprint for falling back in love with being human.
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ISBN 9780735245945 · Penguin