{"product_id":"jubilee-9781665088152","title":"Jubilee","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Bianca appears late one night at her brother's house in Santa Ana, she is barely conscious, though not alone. Jubilee, wrapped in a fuzzy pink romper, is buckled into a car seat. Jubilee, who Bianca feeds and clothes and bathes and loves. Jubilee, who Bianca could not leave behind. Jubilee, a doll in her arms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in alternating points of view, Jubilee reveals both the haunting power of our lived experiences and the surreal possibility of the present to heal the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first thread, Before Jubilee, follows Bianca in her girlhood home on the Mexicali border as she struggles with her high school sweetheart, Gabe, and a secret they've shared since she was fifteen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe second thread, With Jubilee, is told from the point of view of her new love, Joshua, who, along with Bianca's family, helps her cope with a mysterious trauma by accepting Jubilee as part of the family. As Joshua's love for Bianca grows, he fears that Jubilee has the power to tear his tiny family apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlternating chapters give readers a unique perspective on Bianca's present and on her relationship with Jubilee as her past life with Gabe comes to a catastrophic end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJubilee is at once a darkly suspenseful psychological drama and a luminous reflection on how beauty emerges from even the most traumatic of experiences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGivhan, Jennifer:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Givhan\u003c\/b\u003e, a National Endowment for the Arts and PEN\/Rosenthal Emerging Voices fellow, is a Mexican American writer and activist from the Southwestern desert. She is the author of four full-length poetry collections: \u003ci\u003eLandscape with Headless Mama\u003c\/i\u003e (2015 Pleiades Editors' Prize), \u003ci\u003eProtection Spell\u003c\/i\u003e (2016 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Series edited by Billy Collins), \u003ci\u003eGirl with Death Mask\u003c\/i\u003e (2017 Blue Light Books Prize chosen by Ross Gay), and\u003ci\u003e Rosa's Einstein\u003c\/i\u003e (Camino Del Sol Poetry Series, 2019). Her honors include the Frost Place Latinx Scholarship, a National Latinx Writers' Conference Scholarship, the Lascaux Review Poetry Prize, Phoebe Journal's Greg Grummer Poetry Prize chosen by Monica Youn, the Pinch Poetry Prize chosen by Ada Limón, and ten Pushcart nominations. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest of the Net\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest New Poets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVerse Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAGNI\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWitness\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Humanities Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMissouri Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e. Givhan holds a master's degree in English from California State University Fullerton and an MFA from Warren Wilson College, and she can be found discussing feminist motherhood at JenniferGivhan.com as well as on Facebook and Twitter @JennGivhan.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589704679698,"sku":"9781665088152","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_42447233-3aba-4c3b-ba54-15bd1d36984e.jpg?v=1756802332","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jubilee-9781665088152","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}