{"product_id":"sitas-choice-athena-kashyap-9781622889051","title":"Sita's Choice","description":"Athena Kashyap's newest collection, \u003ci\u003e Sita's Choice\u003c\/i\u003e, explores issues relating to women, especially in India. Taking off from Sita, the main female character in the \u003ci\u003eRamayana\u003c\/i\u003e, explores her decision to leave her husband, Ram, and return to her mother, Earth. These mythical and magical poems examine the duality of nature, the sacrifices women make daily, and the deeper societal ills such as female foeticide, dowry deaths, violence against women, and the role of the media, \"Ravan's hundred thousand eyes,\" in perpetuating this violence. The book also explores motherhood through poems that look at the mother-child bond, \"the formless, uncharted shape of love,\" as well as the pain of childbirth, \"It rises--multi-hued, magnificent.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Athena Kashyap\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1622889053\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781622889051\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stephen F. Austin University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 80\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.30d","brand":"Athena Kashyap","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48519013892351,"sku":"9781622889051","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f50b4765-6a6b-4fa1-980a-094cc08fb072.jpg?v=1778736500","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/sitas-choice-athena-kashyap-9781622889051","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}