{"product_id":"toward-camden-mercy-romero-9781478013785","title":"Toward Camden","description":"In \u003ci\u003eToward Camden\u003c\/i\u003e, Mercy Romero writes about the relationships that make and sustain the largely African American and Puerto Rican Cramer Hill neighborhood in New Jersey where she grew up. She walks the city and writes outdoors to think about the collapse and transformation of property. She revisits lost and empty houses-her family's house, the Walt Whitman House, and the landscape of a vacant lot. Throughout, Romero engages with the aesthetics of fragment and ruin; her writing juts against idioms of redevelopment. She resists narratives of the city that are inextricable from crime and decline and witnesses everyday lives lived at the intersection of spatial and Puerto Rican diasporic memory. \u003ci\u003eToward Camden\u003c\/i\u003e travels between what official reports say and what the city's vacant lots withhold. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDuke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mercy Romero\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478013788\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478013785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/17\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 136\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Mercy Romero","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48153678577919,"sku":"9781478013785","price":89.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e2e71d26-28b3-499f-bfe0-7c6965b6f27e.jpg?v=1770785096","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/toward-camden-mercy-romero-9781478013785","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}