Description: This stunning debut blends personal narrative, religious imagery, and pop culture in a chronicle of illness, womanhood, and faith.
Review Quotes: "To write a series of poems out of extreme illness is a bracing accomplishment indeed. In Deluge... Leila Chatti, born of a Catholic mother and a Muslim father, brilliantly explores the trauma. In a frightening two-year saga of a tumor and the 'flooding' it caused, Chatti finds not disassociation but deeper association with her own experience." --Naomi Shihab Nye, The New York Times "Chatti turns fear and shame into empowerment in her unflinching debut... [She] translates a gritty, traumatizing experience into a hypnotic, transcendental topography of the human spirit." --Publishers Weekly, starred review "Tunisian American poet Leila Chatti's powerful collection of poems centers her faith, health, embodiment, shame and womanhood." --Ms. Magazine