{"product_id":"how-to-look-away-daniel-peza-9780593596395","title":"How to Look Away: On American Cruelty and the Refusal to Disappear","description":"\u003cb\u003eA riveting, kaleidoscopic portrait of the American compulsion toward cruelty and our power to subvert it from an award-winning contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHow to Look Away, \u003c\/i\u003e Daniel Peña explores how fringe elements of his Texas childhood--AM radio, conspiracy theories, Post-Cold War paranoia--came to dominate the American political discourse and contributed to our extreme tolerance of human rights abuses against migrants from Latin America and elsewhere. He asks: What compels us to look away from these abuses? And how do we wake ourselves into action? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThese evocative essays braid journalism, cultural criticism, and memoir, roaming from the vestigial Comanche War battlefields of his native Austin, to the black markets of Mexico City, to the home of a cartel hitman's family doomed to live in the unglamorous aftermath of his crimes. Writing from both Mexico and the United States, Daniel Peña reflects on two childhood fears: demons and the death penalty. Or the answer to the question, \"Do you ever really belong to yourself?\" A question that serves as the looking glass through which Peña meditates on American citizenship and the kinds of people we are willing to disappear in the name of the American project. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Look Away\u003c\/i\u003e conjures disquiet and longing beside clarity and hope as it offers a haunting account of the strange bond between two nations, this American moment, and the land upon which our bodies stand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Daniel Peña\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0593596390\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593596395\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e One World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs","brand":"Daniel Peña","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48748274680063,"sku":"9780593596395","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-to-look-away-daniel-peza-9780593596395","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}