{"product_id":"curb-9781643620701","title":"Curb","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 PEN Open Book Award!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Awards in Poetry!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCurb\u003c\/i\u003e maps our post-9\/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across cities and suburbs of the United States. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDivya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks, undergirded by violence but also constantly repaved with new possibilities of belonging. \u003ci\u003eCurb\u003c\/i\u003e witnesses immigrant survival, familial bonds, and interracial parenting in the context of nationalist and white-supremacist violence against South Asians. The book refutes the binary of the model minority and the monstrous, dark \"other\" by reclaiming the throbbing, many-tongued, vermillion heart of kith.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDivya Victor is the author of \u003ci\u003eKith\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNatural Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e (Winner of the Bob Kaufman Award), \u003ci\u003eUnsub\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThings To Do With Your Mouth\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been collected in numerous venues, including, more recently, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, the New Museum's The Animated Reader, \u003ci\u003eCrux: Journal of Conceptual Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Experimental Writing\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePOETRY\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eboundary2\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been translated into French, German, Spanish, and Czech. She teaches at Michigan State University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Nightboat Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50649388482834,"sku":"9781643620701","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1b24d84b-0892-4a9c-a2ca-5b31f70276f2.jpg?v=1733262627","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/curb-9781643620701","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}