{"product_id":"haldeman-lauren-team-photo","title":"Haldeman, Lauren: Team Photograph","description":"\u003cp\u003eSarabande Books, paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: November 8, 2022\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \"\u003ci\u003eCurious, lonely, mournful, haunted, and strangely funny.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Leslie Jamison, author of the NYT bestseller The Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e In her extraordinary graphic novel--which masterfully incorporates poetry and elements of memoir--Lauren Haldeman layers the warfare of soccer over the battlefields now called Bull Run Regional Park, where, growing up, her soccer team would practice and compete. The park and surrounding town of Fairfax Station Virginia set the landscape for the book, where the narrator regularly encounters spectral visions of wounded soldiers and very real artifacts of war-- \"wounded wraiths and faceless shapes\" float in her hallway at night, and bullet shells, buttons, and human bones surface around the soccer fields in daylight. The narrator turns to poetry and history to make sense of the town and its bloodshed, of its forever attachment to injustice and its inability to restore erased identities. \u003ci\u003eTeam Photograph\u003c\/i\u003e is a journey from research to illumination, and the result is a tender yet powerful reckoning of time and place, proof that the past and the present are inexorably fused together.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40452681826327,"sku":"9781956046007","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/9781956046007.jpg?v=1670744264","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/haldeman-lauren-team-photo","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}