{"product_id":"they-call-it-a-body-lethien-9798289239587","title":"They Call It a Body: Gender, Performance, and Other Lies They Tell Little Girls","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I was built for performance, not presence.\"\u003cbr\u003e- from PALIL THIA\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHEY CALLED IT A BODY\u003c\/b\u003e is the debut chapbook from Lethien-a collection of poems that fracture the myth of progress and hold the wreckage of girlhood up to the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are poems of performance and survival, where identity is borrowed, erased, or reshaped until it fits. With sharp lyricism and brutal clarity, Lethien explores the rituals of being seen: gender as spectacle, masking as safety, and healing as yet another demand for softness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRooted in dissociation, memory, and the silence that follows survival, this is a body rendered in fragments-and every fragment speaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lethien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798289239587\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/23\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.08d","brand":"Lethien","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852584694015,"sku":"9798289239587","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/they-call-it-a-body-lethien-9798289239587","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}