"In Preeti Kaur Rajpal's debut collection, she wonders what it means to be part of the modern world with its many divisions and violences. She writes through the memory of her Sikh family's violent expulsion during Historical India's Partition. She threads this history with her experiences as a Sikh American woman during the post-9/11 era. Formally daring and lyrical, the poems of membery weave memory, Sikh spiritual tradition, family, country, and language acquisition as they forge the author's own language."--