{"product_id":"less-than-what-you-once-aaron-brown-9781956692112","title":"Less Than What You Once Were","description":"\u003cp\u003eLess Than What You Once Were begins in a pivotal moment for the speaker-during the 2008 \"Battle of N'Djamena\" in Chad's capital. This destabilizing experience-in which the speaker's home is broken into-results in the family embarking on a months-long departure from the place, and the narrative begins to cycle through childhood memories, from the first night when Brown lands at N'Djamena's airport as an eight-year-old boy to the failed attempt at bird hunting with a slingshot. These centering memories soon give way to stories of displacement as a young adult and, much later, a return to the country of his youth. This fragmented memoir, told in a similar, episodic style to Claudia Rankine's Citizen, is both a coming-of-age story and also a story of exile, ending in a state of dislocated adulthood, the speaker longing for a return to a childhood home that can't be accessed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aaron Brown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1956692118\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781956692112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Unsolicited Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/26\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 132\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d","brand":"Aaron Brown","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44046939914495,"sku":"9781956692112","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_355ce560-fb73-418d-beeb-19481b09365d.jpg?v=1684987360","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/less-than-what-you-once-aaron-brown-9781956692112","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}