{"product_id":"ruins-child-9780811240215","title":"Ruins, Child","description":"Centered on six women sharing a space in a derelict apartment tower and set in what maybe the future, \u003cem\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e is remarkable for its sweep, wit, and the sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, powered along by snatches of speech. \"The woman is old, I hear children saying nearby, not in the way we consider all adults to be old, but really old, ancient, she is endless.\" Using the lenses of urban infrastructure, botany, folklore, choreography, and collective listening, \u003cem\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e creates a new ethnography of place and an ode both to communal ruins and to resistance. In the vivacity of their telling, Scodellaro's heroines obscure authority, setting afoot a radical freeing-up. \"Looseness, that is the thing people fear in a person (in women) and in objects.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScodellaro, Giada:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eGiada Scodellaro\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Naples, Italy and raised in the Bronx, New York. The recipient of a MacDowell Fellowship, she is a queer writer and artist whose writings have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBOMB\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHarper's\u003c\/em\u003e. Her debut collection from Dorothy Project, \u003cem\u003eSome of Them Will Carry Me\u003c\/em\u003e, was one of \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e's best books of 2022.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160420610322,"sku":"9780811240215","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5b18245b-3ff9-4ca1-8894-97a110772b74.jpg?v=1775059742","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ruins-child-9780811240215","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}