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Atender, funny, stunningly candid memoir about the joys and challenges of parenting a neurodivergent young adult that reads like a heady concoction of Dorothy Allison, Anne Lamott, Alison Bechdel and David Sedaris. ""This book sparkles with life, humor and infinite chutzpah.""-Michelle Tea, author of Valencia ""Suzette Partido has written the handbook we've been waiting for. Love Will Save Us, Right? is a knockout memoir . . . Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America's broken promises while finding beauty in all the broken places. A stunning debut from an exciting new voice in American literature.""-Ariel Gore, author of Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer When Suzette Partido's family receives a shut-off notice due to an unpaid water bill, the timing couldn't be worse. She's just left her job to take over round-the-clock caregiving for her neurodivergent child. Once she finds the money to pay off the bill, Suzette sits down and begins to write about her life, one that centers around mental health struggles, special needs parenting, and ""the infallible exhaustion of queer love."" That essay grew into this groundbreaking memoir, destined to become a modern classic. In an irreverent, time-traveling coming-of-age story about family, love, and resilience, Partido strikes a balance between two perspectives - motherly and subversive. She engages her readers in an easy intimacy, bringing them along with her on the relentless pursuit of safe harbor for her family while navigating a revolving door of struggle, exasperation, kindness, community, and laugh-out-loud naughtiness, wrapped in a promise of unyielding love.

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""Love Will Save Us, Right? is a moving, authentic, engaging dive into the realities of parenting, loving and giving care at the end of capitalism. Suzette Partido's astute and inviting storytelling brings both a political lens and a sturdy tenderness to the project of family-making while queer, low-income, disabled.This book sparkles with life, humor and infinite chutzpah.""—Michelle Tea, author of Valencia ""At times humorous or distressing or emotional, yet always grounded in compassion, Love Will Save Us, Right? is an engaging reflection on living and parenting through medical diagnoses, capitalism, and complicated family history.""—Tomas Moniz, author of All Friends Are Necessary ""Suzette Partido has written the handbook we've been waiting for. Love Will Save Us, Right? is a knockout memoir that will speak to the soul of anyone who's ever stood in line at a food bank while holding a master's degree. With fierce intelligence and gallows humor, Partido smashes the myths of meritocracy as she chronicles her journey parenting a neurodivergent child on society's margins. Her kitchen witchery—transforming food insecurity into satisfying meals through clever presentation and glass jars—becomes a powerful metaphor for how we survive when the systems meant to support us fail. Partido's voice is a revelation: a badass and a poet, this psychic love child of Anne Lamott and Dorothy Allison writes with the raw authenticity of someone who's seen behind the curtain and still refuses to give in to cynicism. Instead, she transforms everyday struggles into necesary meditations on dignity, love, and the radical power of showing up anyway. Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America's broken promises while finding beauty in all the broken places. A stunning debut from an exciting new voice in American literature.""—Ariel Gore, author of Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer ""'It is the Ancestor's breath that pushes me forward. An artisanal cocktail of capital-L-love, made with equal parts superstition, sunrise, and sorrow . . . ' This passage made me put the book down and marvel at the quality of Southfox's writing. She navigates family, a neurospicy kid, and poverty with intelligence, snark, honesty, and love. In other news, come the Zombie Apocalypse, Suzette's team is the one you want to latch onto. Where you might feel like giving up, she and her family find a way.""—Meg Barnhouse, author of Seeds of a Spirited Life

""Love Will Save Us, Right? is a moving, authentic, engaging dive into the realities of parenting, loving and giving care at the end of capitalism. Suzette Partido's astute and inviting storytelling brings both a political lens and a sturdy tenderness to the project of family-making while queer, low-income, disabled.This book sparkles with life, humor and infinite chutzpah.""—Michelle Tea, author of Valencia ""At times humorous or distressing or emotional, yet always grounded in compassion, Love Will Save Us, Right? is an engaging reflection on living and parenting through medical diagnoses, capitalism, and complicated family history.""—Tomas Moniz, author of All Friends Are Necessary ""This psychic love child of Anne Lamott and Dorothy Allison writes with the raw authenticity of someone who's seen behind the curtain and still refuses to give in to cynicism. Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America's broken promises while finding beauty in all the broken places.""—Ariel Gore, author of Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer ""'It is the Ancestor's breath that pushes me forward. An artisanal cocktail of capital-L-love, made with equal parts superstition, sunrise, and sorrow . . . ' This passage made me put the book down and marvel at the quality of Southfox's writing. She navigates family, a neurospicy kid, and poverty with intelligence, snark, honesty, and love. In other news, come the Zombie Apocalypse, Suzette's team is the one you want to latch onto. Where you might feel like giving up, she and her family find a way.""—Meg Barnhouse, author of Seeds of a Spirited Life ""Suzette Partido holds an open-ended round trip ticket to Hell and back.Love Will Save Us, Right?is a feast for your heart and your brain and your preconceptions of what queer family life on the spectrum looks like. Like a blob of wasabi, you don't know whether to spit, savor, or swallow. Best not to overthink it and do all three. Partido's words draw you into a world inhabited by fallen angels, Sisyphus, and outside-the-box genius, with a firm grasp on her survival tools of humor and hope. And love. Always love.""—Eve Diana, contributor to The Complete Gay and Lesbian Parenting Guide

""Love Will Save Us, Right? is a moving, authentic, engaging dive into the realities of parenting, loving and giving care at the end of capitalism. Suzette Partido's astute and inviting storytelling brings both a political lens and a sturdy tenderness to the project of family-making while queer, low-income, disabled.This book sparkles with life, humor and infinite chutzpah.""—Michelle Tea, author of How to Grow Up: A Memoir ""At times humorous or distressing or emotional, yet always grounded in compassion, Love Will Save Us, Right? is an engaging reflection on living and parenting through medical diagnoses, capitalism, and complicated family history.""—Tomas Moniz, author of All Friends Are Necessary ""Suzette Partido has written the handbook we've been waiting for. Love Will Save Us, Right? is a knockout memoir that will speak to the soul of anyone who's ever stood in line at a food bank while holding a master's degree. With fierce intelligence and gallows humor, Partido smashes the myths of meritocracy as she chronicles her journey parenting a neurodivergent child on society's margins. Her kitchen witchery—transforming food insecurity into satisfying meals through clever presentation and glass jars—becomes a powerful metaphor for how we survive when the systems meant to support us fail. Partido's voice is a revelation: a badass and a poet, this psychic love child of Anne Lamott and Dorothy Allison writes with the raw authenticity of someone who's seen behind the curtain and still refuses to give in to cynicism. Instead, she transforms everyday struggles into necesary meditations on dignity, love, and the radical power of showing up anyway. Essential reading for anyone trying to make sense of America's broken promises while finding beauty in all the broken places. A stunning debut from an exciting new voice in American literature.""—Ariel Gore, author of Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer

Author Information

Suzette Partido has worked as a community developer and non-profit organizer for three decades. She trained as an AIDS chaplain, street outreach worker, substance abuse counselor, reproductive health educator, volunteer coordinator, and public speaker. She served a large urban liberal congregation for more than thirteen years and, before retiring, managed an HHSA community liaison for children's public behavioral health and served as the Director of Education for a local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness.She lives with her neurodivergent young adult son and her wife inside a ten-by-ten canvas tent in her mother's backyard in San Diego, CA.

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