Amanda Ngoho Reavey's Marilyn is her first non-fiction book. The book begins with talks about exploration through somatic experiments and how fragmented immigration, and adoption into families are. Reavey finds the most intense images that can be real, imagined, dreamed.
Marilyn travels threw six countries such as Asia it expunges and attempts to fix the Asian, diasporic body. The theme of the book is Migration, movement, displacement. It is a narrative of loss, rebirth, and the growth that comes with pain, a door opening a conversation to Philippine transnational adoption.
Amanda Ngoho Reavey is very intrigued by restoration, ethnoautobiography, and healing. That is what inspired her to write many poems and books such as this. Other than writing she has worked in conduction for some time. She earned an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University.
Marilyn is a somewhat liked book and focuses on how to fix Asian culture and whey it should be fixed.
