{"product_id":"and-the-walls-come-crumbling-down-9780999451403","title":"And the Walls Come Crumbling Down","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A series of interlocking short pieces that reach right into your guts and squeeze them, artfully and without mercy.\"\u003c\/em\u003e --Ivan Coyote, author of \u003cem\u003eTomboy Survival Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e's \"October 2020 Reads for the Rest of Us\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePart queer memoir and part poetic rumination, \u003cem\u003eAnd The Walls Come Crumbling Down\u003c\/em\u003e lays bare the love, pain, and precarity experienced by those who must forge their own home.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIf home is not a building, what is it? If home is not a place, what is it? If home is not a person, what is it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd the Walls Come Crumbling Down\u003c\/em\u003e starts in the early 2000s. A young queer woman in Singapore is unable to find safety and refuge in her biological family or country of birth. But she insists on home. She insists on history. She refuses sanitized orderliness and linear perfection, choosing to build a life that embraces the mess and excess of human existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresented in radically vulnerable fragments through a hybrid of queer memoir and poetic rumination, De Rozario's \u003cem\u003eAnd The Walls Come Crumbling Down\u003c\/em\u003e masterfully lays bare the love, pain, and precarity experienced by those who must forge their own home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition, out for the first time in North America, is updated with a new preface from the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ede Rozario, Tania:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eTania De Rozario\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and visual artist. She is the author of the award-winning \u003ci\u003eTender Delirium\u003c\/i\u003e (Math Paper Press, 2013) and \u003ci\u003eSomewhere Else, Another You\u003c\/i\u003e (Math Paper Press, 2018). Born in Singapore, she lives and works on the traditional unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, colonially known as Vancouver.","brand":"Gaudy Boy, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51276829819154,"sku":"9780999451403","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2ed58737-113f-493b-ab45-a9ee53a7b868.jpg?v=1747141449","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/and-the-walls-come-crumbling-down-9780999451403","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}