{"product_id":"another-america-otra-america","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarbara Kingsolver\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of sixteen books of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction and is the recipient of the National Humanities Medal. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the founder of the PEN\/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Seal Press (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50724806459666,"sku":"9781541600386","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5d5ae524-40ec-4901-ac55-29ef873569c6.jpg?v=1734809487","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/another-america-otra-america","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}