In a searching and powerful debut memoir awardwinning poet and literary translator Ani Gjika tells a different kind of origin story by writing about the ways a woman listens to her own body intuition and desire.Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came of age just after the fall of Communism a time when everyone had a secret to keep and young women were afraid to walk down the street alone. When her family immigrates to America Gjika finds herself far from the grandmother who helped raise her grappling with a new language and isolated from aging parents who are trying in their own ways to survive. When she meets a young man whose mind leans toward writing as hers does Ani falls in loveat least she thinks its love.Set across Albania Thailand India and the U.S.