Take My Name But Say It Slow Style:Hardcover Told with a raw

Told with a raw

From flags and rainbows to queer slogans (Gay All Day

In spite of her suspicions

always traveling

Take My Name But Say It Slow Style:Hardcover Told with a rawBy: 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