{"product_id":"initiation-ly-de-angeles-9781537050911","title":"Initiation: a Memoir","description":"INITIATION is a memoir that reflects on the moral and ideological changes from the past to the present. Written in a perennial voice de Angeles, born in an era of woman-shaming for difference or sexually unacceptable behaviour, was sold to strangers for  300 by nuns, promptly forgotten, her identity thought erased forever, she was always going to be what others perceive as trouble. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDe Angeles rewilds her own story and transforms cultural stereotypes into a language of honestty and unapologetic witchcraft. \"We are the stories not bound by dogma or displayed as relics in a museum. We cause disquiet. We summon questions but it's not our way to give answers. We take you to the wild and the frightening places. The cave entrance under the ice at the base of that crevasse. Blue handprints on the rock face imprinted with an ochre of confusion. By people no one can name and from a time no human being can confirm. Once Upon a Time people. People of the reindeer. Volcano people.\". \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eINITIATION recalls an age, seemingly forgotten in an era of sexual and gender acceptance, of lies and christian fists. \u003ci\u003eFogetting is the sleep of freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, she says, of the baby-scoop era, when girls as young as her own mother were forced, by shame and threat, to vanish their newborn children, supposedly in-perpetuity. She knows it is still happening. Children remain a form of currency to those who have the money to acquire one. This is not over and slavery is a hall of many mirrors.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ly De Angeles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1537050915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781537050911\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/16\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 300\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Ly De Angeles","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46962637439231,"sku":"9781537050911","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4b18e6a8-fc92-4b91-a09c-01fa1be9f900.jpg?v=1750652066","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/initiation-ly-de-angeles-9781537050911","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}