{"product_id":"black-is-the-body-emily-bernard-9781101972410","title":"Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eBlack Is the Body\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most beautiful, elegant memoirs I've ever read. It's about race, it's about womanhood, it's about friendship, it's about a life of the mind, and also a life of the body. But more than anything, it's about love. I can't praise Emily Bernard enough for what she has created in these pages.\" --Elizabeth Gilbert \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003eS\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Bernard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1101972416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781101972410\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/03\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2021 pg. 75","brand":"Emily Bernard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050308858111,"sku":"9781101972410","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7b0e43ef-fc62-4f08-982c-74cea898b42d.jpg?v=1685006472","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-is-the-body-emily-bernard-9781101972410","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}