Becoming Ammi: A Queer, Desi Journey into Parenthood
Neema Avashia
Apr 2027 · Penguin Random House Audio
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From the award-winning author of Another Appalachia, an intimate portrait of queer motherhood and mother-loss—with meditations on grief, familial legacies, and selfhood
In Becoming Ammi, author and educator Neema Avashia reflects on a new stage of her life: becoming a parent.
Through short reflective chapters, Avashia weaves together stories of early motherhood as a Desi, queer, Appalachian, and non-gestational parent (a parent who did not physically carry or give birth to the child).
Becoming Ammi is shaped by Avashia's real-time reflections written like diary entries—some fully formed, written during the quiet of 3 a.m. feedings, while others are fragmented, scribbled down in the small moments she could carve out each day. Together, the essays culminate into a deeply personal meditation on her transforming sense of self.
Written in three parts, the book explores Neema’s relationship with her daughter, questions of integrating her old life into her new one, and becoming a mother while losing her own.
Intimate and candid, Avashia's story will speak to anyone who does not feel like they fit into the traditional framework of “parent.”
In Becoming Ammi, author and educator Neema Avashia reflects on a new stage of her life: becoming a parent.
Through short reflective chapters, Avashia weaves together stories of early motherhood as a Desi, queer, Appalachian, and non-gestational parent (a parent who did not physically carry or give birth to the child).
Becoming Ammi is shaped by Avashia's real-time reflections written like diary entries—some fully formed, written during the quiet of 3 a.m. feedings, while others are fragmented, scribbled down in the small moments she could carve out each day. Together, the essays culminate into a deeply personal meditation on her transforming sense of self.
Written in three parts, the book explores Neema’s relationship with her daughter, questions of integrating her old life into her new one, and becoming a mother while losing her own.
Intimate and candid, Avashia's story will speak to anyone who does not feel like they fit into the traditional framework of “parent.”
From the award-winning author of Another Appalachia, an intimate portrait of queer motherhood and mother-loss—with meditations on grief, familial legacies, and selfhood
In Becoming Ammi, author and educator Neema Avashia reflects on a new stage of her life: becoming a parent.
Through short re...
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About the author
Neema Avashia is the daughter of Indian immigrants, and was born and raised in southern West Virginia. Her first book, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, was published by West Virginia University Press in 2022. It was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the New England Book Award, and the Weatherford Award, and was a named best LGBTQ Memoir of 2022 by Book Riot, as well as a New York Public Library Best Book of 2022. She has been an educator and activist in the Boston Public Schools since 2003.
Neema Avashia is the daughter of Indian immigrants, and was born and raised in southern West Virginia. Her first book, Another Appalachia: Coming Up Queer and Indian in a Mountain Place, was published by West Virginia University Press in 2022. It was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award, the ...
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