Mira’s Story – Nikki Ali
ISBN: 9781788641609
£13.99
I want bodies swollen with wanting me, made hungry by the lure of my art…
Imagine a story that oozes sensuality, that immerses you in music, dance, taste, touch and sight, that delves deep into sexuality with not a whiff of prurience. And what if that story was also one of the most incisive and urgent challenges to ablism and racism that you had ever read? And if it explored spirituality and our sense of otherness as deeply as it grounded us in our embodiment? Imagine a story that expands your empathy, your thinking, the way you use language, your heart.
Now meet your girl, Mira. Hispanic-American, married to Andre and in polyamorous relationships with Paloma and Araceli, a young woman living with Cystic Fibrosis against the backdrop of an impoverished childhood with an unstable, drug-dependent mother who goes on throwing challenges into her complex life. Mira will take you to places you never imagined. And she will do it with an authenticity that will take your breath away. She will have you in tears and make you laugh out loud, all without an ounce of didacticism. Mira isn’t here to preach but to live—life in all it’s glorious, messy, joyous, sensual, heart-breaking fullness. This is Mira’s Story—a story for us all.
But tonight is for mysteries. Tonight is for opening myself up to the dreaming.
Author biography
Your girl Nikki Ali is a writer, teacher, dancer, and activist originally from Brooklyn, New York, and now based in Newark, New Jersey, where she lives humbly on the original homeland of the Mohican and Lenape peoples. As her author persona, Nikki writes queer erotic romance, fiction, and poetry where love and fulfillment are for every body and sensuality is an integrated part of our lives. She also publishes books on writing craft and a yearly anthology of heartfelt writing with her creative circle.
By day, Nikki teaches on the university level at a small school in Jersey City, New Jersey, where she learns from and laughs with her students every day. She is privileged to travel the world, both solo and with her students, as an ancient historian and archaeologist.
By night, as her alter ego Mistress M, she mentors and guides writers in finding their own curated writing rhythm and deepest sensual expression. Books and stories saved Nikki’s life, and she loves helping more beautiful books make their way out into the world.
Nikki is a belly dancer, slow but avid runner, devotee of Sufi poetry, and lifelong practitioner of yoga. She delights in art, symbol, mysticism, divination, and the esoteric. She is committed to the global rise, healing, and joy of the world’s oppressed peoples, and to inner and outer liberation for all. At the time of this writing, she has recently given birth to a baby girl, one of the greatest creative endeavors of her life.
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