{"product_id":"when-the-world-explodes-essays-9780814259177","title":"When the World Explodes: Essays","description":"How do you survive when your world explodes? By the time she was seven, Amy Lee Scott had seen her world end twice: first as an infant, when adoption brought her from Korea to Ohio, and again when her adoptive mother died of cancer. Orphaned twice over, Scott confronts her personal chaos by investigating a litany of historic catastrophes and the disruptions that followed. Witnessing a Cabbage Patch Kid \"born\" at BabyLand General Hospital inspires a meditation on the history of Korean adoption and her own origins. Recalling her miscarriage as the streets of her Detroit neighborhood flooded, she asks what it means to mourn what would have been. And she remembers her mother's illness and death amid the 1992 Los Angeles riots. In this haunting debut, Scott gets to the heart of what it means to wrestle with the grief, rage, and anxiety seething in this tender world. Ferocious and true, \u003ci\u003eWhen the World Explodes\u003c\/i\u003e probes the space between personal and global calamities--from Krakatoa to the emotional perils of motherhood--to unearth the sharp ridge of hope that hides beneath the rubble.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmy Lee Scott received an MFA from the University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program. Her writing can be found in \u003ci\u003eTin House Online, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGettysburg Review, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGulf Coast, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Letters, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFourth Genre, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouthern Review, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181135298834,"sku":"9780814259177","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1776827f-48c3-480e-a815-746e4d99eb0e.jpg?v=1744390782","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/when-the-world-explodes-essays-9780814259177","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}