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Diode Editions, 2024
This is your task: infiltrate every pediatrician’s office & sneak copies of all children. into the stacks of old magazines, to be uncovered like a holy relic of light by all the weird kids, by the misunderstood kids, the hurt kids, by children with too much inside them, by those afraid to say what must be said, by children who are also adults & trapped in a culture of violence & trauma, children who’ve hidden inside themselves for lifetimes, which is to say, by all children, as we are all children. In this swirling book of beautiful & terrifying & hilarious & terrifying writing, Shabnam Piryaei uses the light-hearted rhetoric of children’s magazines to reach to the reader, to hold a light up in the darkness each reader holds inside. This is a book unlike any other. It is here to help you.
— Mathias Svalina
Diode Editions, 2024
This is your task: infiltrate every pediatrician’s office & sneak copies of all children. into the stacks of old magazines, to be uncovered like a holy relic of light by all the weird kids, by the misunderstood kids, the hurt kids, by children with too much inside them, by those afraid to say what must be said, by children who are also adults & trapped in a culture of violence & trauma, children who’ve hidden inside themselves for lifetimes, which is to say, by all children, as we are all children. In this swirling book of beautiful & terrifying & hilarious & terrifying writing, Shabnam Piryaei uses the light-hearted rhetoric of children’s magazines to reach to the reader, to hold a light up in the darkness each reader holds inside. This is a book unlike any other. It is here to help you.
— Mathias Svalina
