Still My Father's Son

Still My Father's Son by Nora Hikari weaves a complex & delicate tale of love, religious trauma, queerness, and self/selves. As we are systematically walked upstream through a shimmering river in which shrewd emotion and aching observations cascade, we bear witness to God & the lessons of his son, Uriel; to the speaker declaring that "Every person you have been deserves a burial and a headstone;" to the Vicious Self pleading to the Small Self, repeatedly through burning tears, that she is loved. A devastating intimacy surrounds this collection, omnipresent in moments where language is sharp enough to cut. Hikari's work is an exploration into self-love at its most fractured and literal, and a beautiful homage to what it means to heal from/with/by deep-rooted pain. For, despite all the hurt in the world, "you can live. You can. You can live for all of the people we could be tomorrow, if you try."

• | Author: Nora Hikari
• | Publisher: Sundress Publications
• | Publication Date: Mar 04, 2025
• | Number of Pages: 00088 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 1951979702
• | ISBN-13: 9781951979706