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two strangers meet in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa and share an extraordinary evening

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Heaven persian two strangers meet in theEmerson Whitney writes, 'Really, I can't explain myself without making a mess.' What follows is that mess electrifying, gorgeous, defiant. At Heaven's center, Whitney seeks to understand their relationship to their mother and grandmother, those first windows into womanhood and all its consequences. Whitney retraces a roving youth in deeply observant, psychedelic prose all the while folding in the work of thinkers like Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, and