{"product_id":"cyborg-sister-jackie-craven-9781735823669","title":"Cyborg Sister","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis memoir-in-poems examines a complex family through horticulture, heterocentricism, and-wait for it!-Nancy Drew. The speaker as queerly astute girl-sleuth \"cross-examines the microwave\" and probes the \"empty ghosts in the basement closet.\" The result is a page-turner in which the promise of each arresting title-among them, \"Dusk Lands on Page 37 of The Whispering Statue\" and \"Our House is Menstruating\"-is realized.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Julie Marie Wade, judge of Charlotte Mew Contest\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Jackie Craven's gorgeous chapbook, \u003ci\u003eCyborg Sister, \u003c\/i\u003e readers will encounter a weird, luminous world where a house menstruates, a cyborg sister removes her skin at night, and a father gifts his children with robotic roses. These whimsical poems, steeped in elements of magical realism, explore the intimate, uncanny domestic spaces of female lives. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Sarah Giragosian, author of \u003ci\u003eQueer Fish\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Death Spiral\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFusing magnificent craft with penetrating humor, Jackie Craven's \u003ci\u003eCyborg Sister\u003c\/i\u003e provides an unforgettable critique of heteronormative standards for female behavior through its depiction of a young girl struggling with the desires and culturally condemned messiness of her own skin, while her \"properly cultivated\" sister is extolled for being \"perfect\" in every detail. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e-Lisa Dordal, author of Mosaic of the Dark and Water Lessons\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jackie Craven\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 173582366X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781735823669\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Headmistress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.15lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.08d","brand":"Jackie Craven","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44069155078399,"sku":"9781735823669","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea00cb5e-483d-4d53-a42b-d2aa9a7688aa.jpg?v=1685423117","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cyborg-sister-jackie-craven-9781735823669","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}