{"product_id":"not-for-everyday-use-book-elizabeth-nunez-9781617752339","title":"Not For Everyday Use","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA riveting memoir in which Nunez comes to grips with her mother's passing and her parents' ambition for their children.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e--Winner of the 2015 Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award in Nonfiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Nunez ponders the cultural, racial, familial, social, and personal experiences that led to what she ultimately understands was a deeply loving union between her parents. A beautifully written exploration of the complexities of marriage and family life.\" --\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Through her thoughtful and articulate writing, Nunez offers a valuable perspective on the racism that she experienced, even in America, and the damage the Catholic Church does to women who follow the 'no artificial birth control' rule. Recommended for memoir enthusiasts and readers interested in Caribbean literature.\" --\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTracing the four days from the moment she gets the call that every immigrant fears to the burial of her mother, Nunez tells the haunting story of her lifelong struggle to cope with the consequences of the \"sterner stuff\" of her parents' ambitions for their children, and her mother's seemingly unbreakable conviction that displays of affection are not for everyday use.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e But Nunez sympathizes with her parents, whose happiness is constrained by the oppressive strictures of colonialism, by the Catholic Church's prohibition of artificial birth control which her mother obeys, terrified by the threat of eternal damnation (her mother gets pregnant 14 times: nine live births and five miscarriages which almost kill her), and by what Malcolm Gladwell refers to as the \"privilege of skin color\" in his mother's Caribbean island homeland where \"the brown-skinned classes . . . came to fetishize their lightness.\" Still, a fierce love holds this family together, and the passionate, though complex, love Nunez's parents have for each other will remind readers of the passion between the aging lovers in Gabriel García Márquez's \u003ci\u003eLove in the Time of Cholera.\u003c\/i\u003e Written in exquisite prose by a writer the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e calls \"a master at pacing and plotting,\" \u003ci\u003eNot for Everyday Use\u003c\/i\u003e is a page-turner that readers will find impossible to put down.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49522391187729,"sku":"GOR005969922","price":15.49,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50215665533201,"sku":"CIN1617752339G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1617752339.jpg?v=1751309979","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/not-for-everyday-use-book-elizabeth-nunez-9781617752339","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}