Finding Querencia: Essays from In-Between by Harrison Candelaria Fletcher (Engli

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Innovative and lyrical essays about the search for belonging while straddling white and Latinx identities.

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Winner, 2022 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award (Autobiography/Memoir category) With its roots in the Spanish verb querer--"to want, to love"--the term querencia has been called untranslatable but has come to mean a place of safety and belonging, that which we yearn for when we yearn for home. In this striking essay collection, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher shows that querencia is also a state of being: the peace that arises when we reconcile who we are. A New Mexican of mixed Latinx and white ethnicity, Candelaria Fletcher ventures into the fault lines of culture, landscape, and spirit to discover the source of his lifelong hauntings. Writing in the persona of coyote, New Mexican slang for "mixed," he explores the hyphenated elements within himself, including his whiteness. Blending memory, imagination, form, and language, each essay spirals outward to investigate, accept, and embrace hybridity. Ultimately, Finding Querencia offers a new vocabulary of mixed-ness, a way to reconcile the crosscurrents of self and soul.

Author Biography

Harrison Candelaria Fletcher is the author of Presentimiento: A Life in Dreams and Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life. He teaches in the MFA programs at Vermont College of Fine Arts and Colorado State University.

Table of Contents

I WHITE OUT Open Season Through Walls Masked Conjugation White Out II ORIGIN STORY III COYOTE LAND Coyote Cookbook Coyote Drive-In Coyote Yearbook Of Ink Wash and Light Identity Theft Coyote Combat Coyote Curfew Imprint IV ALTAR OF LEAVES The Crossing Slightest Edge Water for Roots A Place She Goes Altar of Leaves V CONFLUENCE VI EXCAVATION VII INHERITANCE VIII BORDERLAND IX COYOTE Epilogue

Review

"A powerful set of reflections on identity and family history." --Kirkus"Elegant and poignant, Finding Querencia animates the conversations about identity, belonging, and other embattled territories, but it is also about searching for grace and redemption among the ruins--and how the act of remembering is also an act of love." --Rigoberto González, author of What Drowns the Flowers in Your Mouth: A Memoir of Brotherhood"Finding Querencia dances between margins with prose that sings like poetry and lyric essays that shoot forward and backward in time even as they swirl, dervish-like, in the present. And this is as it should be, as Candelaria Fletcher explores--with confidence and an abiding uncertainty--his own identity as a person made up of differences." --Nance Van Winckel, author of The Many Beds of Martha Washington"Like the subjects he explores, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher's shape-shifting prose defies easy categorization. Form and language conspire to illuminate an identity as slippery and fierce as the elements shimmering in these essays. Finding Querencia is many things--a love song, a prayer, an exquisite haunting--but ultimately, this powerful collection is an act of reckoning and reclamation." --Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread

Review Quote

"Like the subjects he explores, Harrison Candelaria Fletcher's shape-shifting prose defies easy categorization. Form and language conspire to illuminate an identity as slippery and fierce as the elements shimmering in these essays. Finding Querencia is many things--a love song, a prayer, an exquisite haunting--but ultimately, this powerful collection is an act of reckoning and reclamation." --Sonja Livingston, author of Ghostbread

Excerpt from Book

II ORIGIN STORY 1. A colleague listens to you read about your childhood among cottonwoods, owls, acequias, arroyos, and the apple-skin New Mexican sky. Afterward, he places a hand on your shoulder and squeezes. You are, he says, the most haunted person he knows. 2. You sit as a boy on the hardwood floor of your home, beside rocks from the river, deer antlers from the llano, and a castle of Cochiti drums. With knights and monsters, you drift through wood-smoke incense and the watery light from the front window. You are flying, or swimming, in a story or a dream, trying hard to never touch down. 3. Your grandmother watches you across the kitchen table while your mother makes fried potatoes and tortillas for supper. You move like your father, she says to you smiling, but since you don't remember him, you have nothing to say, and return instead to your toys. She tries again, this time in Spanish, but you still don't respond, so she frowns at your mother. He's like Pinocchio, your grandmother says. Boy made of wood: Half self, half soul.

Details ISBN0814258174 Author Harrison Candelaria Fletcher Short Title Finding Querencia Pages 192 Series Machete Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0814258174 ISBN-13 9780814258170 Format Paperback Subtitle Essays from In-Between Publication Date 2022-04-15 Illustrations 26 Illustrations UK Release Date 2022-04-15 DEWEY 814.6 Audience General Publisher Ohio State University Press Imprint Ohio State University Press Place of Publication Columbus, OH Country of Publication United States US Release Date 2022-04-15 We've got this

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