Beauty Talk Author|Patrick Bettendorf and native food culture restoration

and native food culture restoration into one published piece

and that the way to make sure it continues is to pay attention to the good all around us

and the kind of honesty that makes you breathe a little deeper and say

that Chapman is able to tell the stories that made her childhood — turning up the depth of their sins

Beauty Talk Author|Patrick Bettendorf and native food culture restorationIntimate, wry and a little sour, Asa Drake's Beauty Talk addresses the (im)possibility of talking about beauty in America without addressing whiteness. Here is a personal history of who gets to be beautiful. While Beauty Talk pulls from the autobiographical: a father as the 1970's Camel cigarette man, correspondences with abandoned siblings, an historic family map; the collection is shaped by the illegibility, omission and ekphrasis of the personal