{"product_id":"ruins-child-9780811240215","title":"Ruins, Child","description":"Centered on six women sharing a space in a derelict apartment tower and set in what maybe the future, \u003cem\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e is remarkable for its sweep, wit, and the sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, powered along by snatches of speech. \"The woman is old, I hear children saying nearby, not in the way we consider all adults to be old, but really old, ancient, she is endless.\" Using the lenses of urban infrastructure, botany, folklore, choreography, and collective listening, \u003cem\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e creates a new ethnography of place and an ode both to communal ruins and to resistance. In the vivacity of their telling, Scodellaro's heroines obscure authority, setting afoot a radical freeing-up. \"Looseness, that is the thing people fear in a person (in women) and in objects.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-15221876\"\u003eGiada Scodellaro\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Directions Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780811240215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0811240215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC049020\"\u003eAfrican American \u0026amp; Black | Women\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC084040\"\u003eWorld Literature | American | 21st Century\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46195083247755,"sku":"9780811240215","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0626\/5100\/7115\/files\/img_ebedb00d-4f98-42f4-91e9-299e09246788.jpg?v=1773420006","url":"https:\/\/cacorrectionsbookstore.com\/products\/ruins-child-9780811240215","provider":"CA Corrections Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}