{"product_id":"personhood-9780811229739","title":"Personhood","description":"Whether investigating refugee parrots, indentured elephants, the pathetic fallacy, or the revolving absurdity of the human role in the \"invasive species crisis,\" \u003cem\u003ePersonhood\u003c\/em\u003e reveals how the unmistakable problem between humans and our nonhuman relatives is too often the derangement of our narratives and the resulting lack of situational awareness. Building on her previous collection, \u003cem\u003eBird Lovers, Backyard\u003c\/em\u003e, Thalia Field's essayistic investigations invite us on a humorous, heartbroken journey into how people attempt to control the fragile complexities of a shared planet. The lived experiences of animals, and other historical actors, provide unique literary-ecological responses to the exigencies of injustice and to our delusions of special status.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eField, Thalia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eThalia Field\u003c\/strong\u003e is Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University. Her most recent novel is \u003cem\u003eExperimental Animals (A Reality Fiction)\u003c\/em\u003e from Solid Objects Press. Her three New Directions books are \u003cem\u003ePoint and Line\u003c\/em\u003e (2000), \u003cem\u003eIncarnate: Story Material\u003c\/em\u003e (2004), and \u003cem\u003eBird Lovers, Backyard\u003c\/em\u003e (2010).","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51176291500306,"sku":"9780811229739","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_640550cf-66a6-4271-9208-33273ec20dfb.jpg?v=1744298140","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/personhood-9780811229739","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}