Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A Memoir Science & Nature Bayard Rustin

Bayard Rustin

unexplainable

a storm is brewing in Bay Ridge

to name just a few--and the ephemera of her life are either lost or plundered

Gloomy Girl Variety Show: A Memoir Science & Nature Bayard RustinMerging memoir, poetry, and criticism, this radical literary revue traces a first generation Nigerian American's search for home and belonging on her own terms. In The Gloomy Girl Variety Show, Freda Epum explores the opposing forces of her "no place, no where" identity as a Nigerian American daughter, diasporically displaced, who spent years in and out of institutions seeking treatment for life threatening mental illness. Epum examines her journey