{"product_id":"in-sensorium-tanas-9780358381709","title":"In Sensorium: Notes for My People","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 2022 Kirkus Prize Winner for Nonfiction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFragrance has long been used to mark who is civilized and who is barbaric, who is pure and who is polluted, who is free and who is damned--\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFocusing their gaze on our most primordial sense, writer and perfumer Tana? weaves a brilliant and expansive memoir, a reckoning that offers a critical, alternate history of South Asia from an American Bangladeshi Muslim femme perspective. From stories of their childhood in the South, Midwest, and New York; to transcendent experiences with lovers, psychedelics, and fragrances; to trips home to their motherland, Tana? builds a universe of memories and scent: a sensorium. Alongside their personal history, and at the very heart of this work, is an interrogation of the ancient violence of caste, rape culture, patriarchy, war, and the inherited ancestral trauma of being from a lush land constantly denuded, a land still threatened and disappearing because of colonization, capitalism, and climate change. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eStructured like a perfume--moving from base to heart to head notes--IN SENSORIUM interlaces eons of South Asian perfume history, erotic and religious texts, survivor testimonies, and material culture with memoir. \u003cem\u003eIn Sensorium\u003c\/em\u003e is archive and art, illuminating the great crises of our time with the language of Liberation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tana?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0358381703\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780358381709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/22\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.80w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Kirkus Prize - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/15\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2021","brand":"Tana?","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44053822341375,"sku":"9780358381709","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_34b7fdc7-a378-4d47-af9c-3fb40f0a30d0.jpg?v=1685026431","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/in-sensorium-tanas-9780358381709","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}