{"product_id":"cruel-fiction","title":"Cruel Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Wendy Trevino\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Commune Editions (2018)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCruel Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e brings together new material with celebrated work published here for the first time in book form, including the provocative and charged \"Brazilian Is Not a Race,\" a sonnet sequence meditating on race, nation, and history seen from the author's native Rio Grande Valley; it also includes widely-circulated \"128-131,\" a caustic, hilarious, tender account memorializing three days in jail during the Occupy movement, one of the many insurgencies that provide the context and kinesis of this powerful collection. This is a spectacular debut trying to puzzle through our present, from the workplace to the pop charts but most of all to the politics of struggle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IPS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39619577282659,"sku":"9781934639252","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/8655\/1139\/products\/image_a0517dcb-faf0-4bef-a7b1-acebf5426386.jpg?v=1634863195","url":"https:\/\/woodlandpatternbookcenter.com\/products\/cruel-fiction","provider":"Woodland Pattern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}