Take My Name But Say It Slow Style:Hardcover The Queens’ Ball follows the

The Queens’ Ball follows the narrator Copi in his attempt to write a novel as life comes undone around him

determined to find her

a local journalist with an enigmatic past reports on the case while also reflecting on the relationship between the three friends

like something on the island is calling to her

sensually charged second Dreamers contemporary (after American Dreamer) that will knock readers’ socks off

Take My Name But Say It Slow Style:Hardcover The Queens’ Ball follows theBy: Thomas Dai A luminous memoir in essays exploring place, identity, and what it means to grow up queer and Asian in the American South. Thomas Dai has never gone by his Chinese name, Nuocheng, fashioned from the Knoxville (Chinese: Nuokeshiweier) of his childhood and the Chengdu his mother called home. Seen another way, Nuocheng also contains the cheng of Chenggong: success. In one breath, his name speaks of a hometown, a geography, a half baked