WINNER of the 2023 Publishing Triangle Award for Trans and GenderVariant LiteratureFinalist for the Firecracker Award for Poetryampampamp160ampampamp160A debut poetry collection in which nonbinary poet and drag performer Wo Chan recounts stories from their queer childhood and adolescence.ampampamp10ampampamp10Togetherness sends out sparks from its electric surface radiating energy and verve from within its deep and steady emotional core stories of the poets immigrant childhood spent in their familyampampamp8217s Chinese restaurant culminating in a deportation battle against the State. These narrative threads weave together monologue soaring lyric descants and document taking the positions of apostrophe biography and soulful plaint to stage a vibrant and daring performance in which drag is formalism and formalism is dragat once campy and sincere queer tender and winking.