{"product_id":"the-body-family-paperback","title":"The Body Family - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHope Wabuke\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe\u003cbr\u003e Body Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a song of memory and revelation; it is the sublime \u003cbr\u003eunearthing of what has been hidden by silence and erasure.\u003c\/b\u003e This lyrical \u003cbr\u003eand imagistic poetry collection tells the story of a family's journey to\u003cbr\u003e flee the murderous reign of Uganda's Idi Amin only to land in a racist \u003cbr\u003eAmerican landscape. Wabuke excavates personal and ancestral history to \u003cbr\u003ebring these poems to wrenching life, articulating what it means to be a \u003cbr\u003eBlack girl becoming a Black woman while navigating a diaspora haunted by\u003cbr\u003e British colonization and American enslavement.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHope Wabuke is a Ugandan American poet, essayist, and writer. She is the author of the forthcoming memoir \u003cem\u003ePlease Don't Kill My Black Son Please\u003c\/em\u003e. Hope has published in \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Root\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eNPR\u003c\/em\u003e among others. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and a founding board member and former Media \u0026amp; Communications Director for the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 80\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.39 x 8.66 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 12, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42698657267775,"sku":"9781642596977","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/e5ac90f45f3a8a82334cbe9fcd84a746_9df9a4bb-dbe9-4bea-948f-e20f8c95b319.webp?v=1765010914","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-body-family-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}