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Heaven persian Toni and Gretchen are theEmerson Whitney writes, 'Really, I can't explain myself without making a mess.' What follows is that mess electrifying, gorgeous, defiant. At Heaven's center, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant, psychedelic prose all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, and