...Lavinia Kumar Copyright © 2018 Smith College 2018 LAVINIA KUMAR LuvThatI(itchen! Marjorie Stewart Joyner (1896-1994) Beauticianb, usinesswoman She was tired of straightening black hair, one slow stove-heated curling iron ata time. Still at night like any woman she cooked potroastpoked many...

..." of Mala's childhood friend Ambrose. Tyler also pieces together Mala's seemingly incoherent rambling into a wrenching narrative of her life. After Mala's father, Chandin, forces her mother, Sarah, and her mother's female lover Lavinia to leave Mala and her younger sister, Asha, and flee the island, Mala...

..., and poetry take up themes of misperception, transformation, and dislocation while collectively inhabiting many worlds. Poems by Jacqueline Bishop, Karen An-hwie Lee, rose.elle.kiwi, and Lavinia Kumar arrive at vital junctures throughout the issue. Each resonates with questions raised by the issue's other...