{"product_id":"che-cathy-linh-split","title":"Che, Cathy Linh: Split","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlice James Books (paperback, 2014)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: In this stunning debut, we follow one woman's profoundly personal account of sexual violence against the backdrop of cultural conflict deftly illustrated through her parents' experiences of the Vietnam War, immigration, and its aftermath. By looking closely at landscape and psyche, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSplit\u003c\/i\u003e explores what happens when deep trauma occurs and seeks to understand what it means to finally become whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSplit\u003c\/i\u003e crosses borders, exposing truths and dreams, violations of body and mind, aligning them until the deep push-pull of silence and song become a bridge. And here we cross over into a landscape where beauty interrogates, and we encounter a voice that refuses to let us off the hook.\"--Yusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Perhaps the writer's most difficult task is to render the catastrophic linked non-stories that comprise transgenerational trauma. Cathy Linh Che's collection \u003ci\u003eSplit\u003c\/i\u003e accomplishes this nearly impossible challenge with uncommon grace and power. Each poem unwinds the cataclysm of personal wounding by making itself irresistibly beautiful.\" --LA Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":32918197141527,"sku":"9781938584053","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/clc.gif?v=1602808550","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/che-cathy-linh-split","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}