In this versatile collection, a fifteen-year-old American girl of color takes us on a surprising journey as she explores the currently urgent issues of transnationalism, migration, language, family, and culture. Beautiful and inspiring, these remarkably mature and thoughtful poems trace the author's own path to self-realization and discovery; in the process of reading them inevitably we come to our own surprising discoveries.

Uma Menon is a high school student from Winter Park, Florida. She is the 2019-2020 Youth Fellow for the International Human Rights Art Festival and the founder of IHRAF Publishes--Youth. HANDS FOR LANGUAGE is her debut book and was shortlisted by the 2019 International Erbacce-Prize.