{"product_id":"wound-9781646221448","title":"Wound","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman's journey across Russia to inter her mother's ashes and to understand her sexuality, femininity, and grief \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom one of Russia's most exciting new voices, \u003ci\u003eWound\u003c\/i\u003e follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother's ashes. Woven throughout this fascinating travel narrative are harrowing and at times sublime memories of her childhood and her sexual and artistic awakening. As she carefully documents her grief and interrogates her past, the narrator of Oksana Vasyakina's autobiographical novel meditates on queerness, death, and love and finds new words for understanding her relationship with her mother, her country, her sexuality, and her identity as an artist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA sensual, whip-smart account of the complicated dynamics of queer life in present-day Siberia and Moscow, \u003ci\u003eWound \u003c\/i\u003eis also in conversation with feminist thinkers and artists, including Susan Sontag, Louise Bourgeois, and Monique Wittig, locating Vasyakina's work in a rich and exciting international literary tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOKSANA VASYAKINA\u003c\/b\u003e is a Russian poet and curator. Her debut poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eWomen's Prose\u003c\/i\u003e, was short-listed for the Andrei Bely Prize in 2016, and the original Russian-language edition of \u003ci\u003eWound\u003c\/i\u003e won the NOS Prize in 2021. She lives in Moscow, where she teaches courses on writing and feminist literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eELINA ALTER\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer and translator. Her work appears in \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBOMB\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. She is the editor of \u003ci\u003eCircumference\u003c\/i\u003e, a journal of translation and international culture.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613846769938,"sku":"9781646221448","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b2a5cff7-6683-41bc-bcaa-ee11c456edd8.jpg?v=1737286416","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/wound-9781646221448","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}