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When Neema Avashia tells people where shes from their response is nearly always a disbelieving There are Indian people in West Virginia A queer Asian American teacher and writer Avashia fits few Appalachian stereotypes But the lessons she learned in childhood about race and class gender and sexuality continue to inform the way she moves through the world today how she loves how she teaches how she advocates how she struggles

Another Appalachia examines both the roots and the resonance of Avashias identity as a queer desi Appalachian woman while encouraging readers to envision more complex versions of both Appalachia and the nation as a whole With lyric and narrative explorations of foodways religion sports standards of beauty social media gun culture and more Another Appalachia mixes nostalgia and humor sadness and sweetness personal reflection and universal questions