{"product_id":"9781555977375","title":"Rapture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBecause I can never say anything\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e plainly. Because I always stutter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e politely. Because there's always the chatter\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e before the kiss.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e—from \"In Need of Subtitles\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this award-winning debut, Sjohnna McCray movingly recounts a life born out of wartime to a Korean mother and an American father serving during the Vietnam War. Their troubled histories, and McCray's own, are told with lyric passion and the mythic undercurrents of discovering one's own identity, one's own desires. What emerges is a self- and family portrait of grief and celebration, one that insists on our lives as anything, please, but singular. \u003ci\u003eRapture\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinary first collection, with poems of rare grace and feeling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061551415536,"sku":"9781555977375","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555977375_p0.jpg?v=1763755668","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555977375","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}