{"product_id":"dear-memory-victoria-chang-9781571313928","title":"Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Firecracker Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003eAn Electric Literature Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Month\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Victoria Chang, memory \"isn't something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally.\" It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who first would not and then could not share more. They are whittled and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license, a letter, a visa petition, a photograph. And, just as often, they are built on the questions that can no longer be answered.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDear Memory \u003c\/em\u003eis not a transcription but a process of simultaneously shaping and being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted collages and missives on trauma, loss, and Americanness, Victoria Chang grasps on to a sense of self that grief threatens to dissipate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets, as the imagination, \u003cem\u003eDear Memory\u003c\/em\u003e offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Victoria Chang\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571313923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571313928\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.90w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2021","brand":"Victoria Chang","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44053323415807,"sku":"9781571313928","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_90a5a9a3-b09e-46c0-8bf7-c61ebe4038b6.jpg?v=1685023709","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dear-memory-victoria-chang-9781571313928","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}