{"product_id":"another-americaotra-america-9781541600386","title":"Another America\/Otra America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom a bestselling and beloved author, an intensely personal collection of poetry \"rich with political and human resonance\"\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cb\u003eUrsula K. LeGuin)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore becoming the bestselling author we know today, Barbara Kingsolver, as a new college graduate in search of adventure, moved to the borderlands of Tucson, Arizona. What she found, she says, was \"another America.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInterweaving past political events, from the US-backed dictatorships in South America to the government surveillance carried out in the Reagan years, Kingsolver's early poetry expands into a broader examination of the racism, discrimination, and immigration system she witnessed at close range. The poems coalesce in a record of her emerging adulthood, in which she confronts the hypocrisy of the national myth of America--a confrontation that would come to shape her not only as an artist, but as a citizen. With a new introduction from Kingsolver that reflects on the current border crisis, \u003ci\u003eAnother \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmerica \u003c\/i\u003eis a striking portrait of a country deeply divided between those with privilege and those without, and the lives of urgent purpose that may be carved out in between.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kingsolver, Barbara\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Seal Press (CA)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781541600386\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.50w x 0.50d","brand":"Barbara Kingsolver","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39730323226699,"sku":"9781541600386","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_cf7ba569-f820-4309-b2ba-8f24cce8788c.jpg?v=1649346744","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/another-americaotra-america-9781541600386","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}