Nobody's Psychic wholeheartedly embraces a nonbinary perspective, as it may be the solitary path to alleviating human suffering, for it is within the divergences and shifts in memory and perception that the truth of the human experience is unveiled, connections are formed, and empathy takes root.

--Maggie Glover, author of How I Went Red

An emotionally raucous, deeply funny, and theoretically wily examination of the impossibility of living with, or without, the image, Nobody's Psychic launches a vital new voice in Lamorte, whose rhizomatic thinking and affecting prose bypass the contemporary obsession with didacticism and embrace the ordinary surrealism of everyday existence.

--Alicia Kozma, director of Indiana University Cinema

A tarantella of unexpected language and sensation, Nobody's Psychic irradiates with lustrous attitude.

--Eva Hayward, University of New Mexico

An irreverent and vulnerable account of growing up queer among the evangelical working class of 1990s Appalachia and putting down roots in the Southwest during the pandemic. Between Pittsburgh and Tucson, these beautiful essays are an exercise in discernment--of the origin of demons, memories, phonemes, weeds, photographs, and the (hi)stories we tell ourselves. As Nobody's Psychic, Dani Lamorte shows us that what we want to see has been right in front of us all along--and if we're lucky, it might just be fake. Religion, language, plants, and, identity intersect insightfully in this stunning debut. You will not want to put it down.

--Joela Jacobs, author of Animal, Vegetal, Marginal: The German Literary Grotesque from Panizza to Kafka

The memoir is a series of long and sometimes very funny essays covering a lot of ground, from speaking in tongues in Southwestern Pennsylvania to gardening in Tucson. As its subtitle suggests, it's primarily about the search for identity and about what happens when you can't quite find it.

--Bill O'Driscoll, 90.5 WESA

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Pub date: 2025-09-30

Length: 192 pages