Dessert First! gathers Quevedo's often self-reflective, gloriously grainy 35 mm colour images from nine years spent in the United States, exploring and finding a variety of oddities, beauty and freedom. Developed over more than nine years, the book captures the spirit of a photographer whose choices as a person and an artist lead her to a nomadic life, engaging with social and political causes and sharing experiences with kindred characters, many of them artists and activists who live on the margins of society. Her analogue, rebellious images, complicit with their subjects, take us with her through a special United States: that of those who choose to live on the margins, fight for personal and social causes and opt for an alternative, adventurous life. Hanna is not a stranger passing through these places: she inhabits them and shares time with the people there, companions on a journey full of unique characters with interesting stories and singular experiences.