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Nobody's Psychic
Finding & Losing Yourself
Dani LamorteSeries: Appalachian Futures: Black, Native, and Queer Voices(0)
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In Nobody's Psychic, Dani Lamorte sets out to define his sense of self and the world in a discordant collection of memories both vivid and surreal. Raised in a church driven by apocalyptic paranoia and homophobic fear, Lamorte had an upbringing marked by a unique tension between wanting to remain invisible and needing to be observed. These competing desires pushed him toward performance, drag, and gardening, each a reflection of the struggle to find and maintain an image. With every encounter, whether in religion, gender roles, or the natural world-from a prophetess predicting destruction to the kaleidoscope of a drag queen's sequins-Lamorte delves into what it means to have an image inside and outside the gaze of others.
Nobody's Psychic defies easy answers, inviting readers to contemplate life's contradictions in essays that navigate the complexities of feeling unseen and sometimes nonexistent. Interlacing personal reflections with broader cultural and spiritual insights, Lamorte creates a space for change, identity, and the elusive nature of time. This is not a story with a resolution but one that challenges us to sit with the uncertainties of who we are and where we are headed.
Nobody's Psychic defies easy answers, inviting readers to contemplate life's contradictions in essays that navigate the complexities of feeling unseen and sometimes nonexistent. Interlacing personal reflections with broader cultural and spiritual insights, Lamorte creates a space for change, identity, and the elusive nature of time. This is not a story with a resolution but one that challenges us to sit with the uncertainties of who we are and where we are headed.
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"Nobody's Psychic wholeheartedly embraces a nonbinary perspective, as it may be the solitary path to alleviating human suffering, for it is within the divergences and shifts in memory and perception that the truth of the human experience is unveiled, connections are formed, and empathy takes root."
Maggie Glover, author of How I Went Red
"An emotionally raucous, deeply funny, and theoretically wily examination of the impossibility of living with, or without, the image, Nobody's Psychic launches a vital new voice in Lamorte, whose rhizomatic thinking and affecting prose bypass the contemporary obsession with didacticism and embrace the ordinary surrealism of everyday existence."
Alicia Kozma, director of Indiana University Cinema
"A tarantella of unexpected language and sensation, Nobody's Psychic irradiates with lustrous attitude."
Eva Hayward, University of New Mexico