{"product_id":"les-portes-meredith-nnoka-9781637681206","title":"Les Portes","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLes Portes\u003c\/i\u003e traces how harm against women and femmes takes root, recurs, and reshapes itself across generations. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnfolding in three movements--Le Début, Le Passé, and Le Présent--all of which rupture conventional domestic abuse narratives, and drawing heavily from zuihitsu, ekphrasis, erasure, and found forms to mirror the fractured experience of living through and after harm, these poems serve as radical meditations on the power to reflect as resistance. A queer woman caught in an abusive marriage begins to reimagine justice not as punishment but as something restorative, collective, and deeply non-carceral. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In her debut book, Nnoka poses the question that propels the collection: \"Where is the path forward \/ that ensures no recurrence?\" Rather than gesture toward resolution, Les Portes dwells inside this question, and what emerges is not consolation but an immense reckoning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meredith Nnoka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1637681208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781637681206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Meredith Nnoka","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520749027583,"sku":"9781637681206","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a1d70548-1e99-458f-ae45-dc35a7f27b8a.jpg?v=1762886872","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/les-portes-meredith-nnoka-9781637681206","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}