{"product_id":"family-china-book-ann-shin-9781926829807","title":"The Family China","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoems about the sense of belonging, about the tenuous ties we make across borders both international and internal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Family China\u003c\/i\u003e, her second book of poems, Ann Shin examines the decentering experiences of migration, loss and death, and the impulse to build anew. In five suites threaded through with footnote-like fragments that haunt and ambush the text like memories, the book accrues associations, building and transforming images from poem to poem, creating a layered and cohesive collection that asks daring questions about how we define ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese poems grapple rawly and musically with the profound messiness of human relations; their candour consoles and instructs. The quandaries in \u003ci\u003eThe Family China\u003c\/i\u003e are deeply recognizable. Strung up between fragility and resilience, between naive hope and domestic disillusionment, between an untenable nostalgia for the pastoral and a deep unease with the global, the voice of these poems is nevertheless determined to find some scrap of a song we can sing in common.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":67615451611409,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":67615452528913,"sku":"NLS9781926829807","price":20.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781926829807.jpg?v=1790905966","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/family-china-book-ann-shin-9781926829807","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}