alison lubar

Launch for it skips a generation coming in-person at Philadelphia's A Novel Idea on Passyunk, 9/23. Registration link will be posted soon!

Pre-sale for it skips a generation is live! Find it here, and in the meantime, enjoy the blurbs:

• "While confronting all that condemns the mixed-race descendants of Japanese Americans as “other” in America, Lubar’s collection lays plain the complicated tension of the speaker’s resistance to and simultaneous longing for her Japanese heritage. Peppered with brackets that add to this making and remaking of the speaker’s sense of self, it skips a generation is ultimately a hard-won account of loss, acceptance, and the pride and grief that come with knowing “I inherit it all.” – Eugenia Leigh, author of Bianca

• "Love permeates It Skips a Generation in surprising ways, in ways that unsettle familial history with curiosity and determination. This book interrogates what it means to belong and how that interrogation can become a pursuit of love and understanding. Lubar carries us through these difficult questions, refusing easy answers with a line that won’t leave me anytime soon—“And I’m still exotic, too, and so lucky, too, to seem so foreign and dangerous and willing to bite.” – Su Cho, author of The Symmetry of Fish

• "Alison Lubar opens up the hopeful equation--that one can survive, even evade the traumas of war and internment by bringing a time traveling and capacious attention to bear on a mixed-race family. Loved ones shimmer to life in these sun-filled tableaux of affection, puns, pain d'epi, squid broth, and observation. It is no small act of care to give eternal home both to elders and to one's own defiance--in poetry." – Cynthia Arrieu-King, author of Futureless Languages and Continuity