{"product_id":"two-brown-dots-danni-quintos-9781950774517","title":"Two Brown Dots","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Danni Quintos carves a space for brown girls and weird girls in her debut collection of poems.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo Brown Dots\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic, Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky. In stark, honest poems, Quintos recounts the messiness and confusion of being a typical '90s kid--watching \u003ci\u003eDirty Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e at sleepovers, borrowing eye shadow out of a friend's caboodle, crushing on a boy wearing khaki shorts to Sunday mass--while navigating the microagressions of the neighbor kids, the awkwardness of puberty, and the casual cruelties of fellow teenagers. The mixed-race daughter of a dark skinned Filipino immigrant, Quintos retells family stories and Phillipine folklore to try and make sense of an identity with roots on opposite sides of the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith clear-eyed candor and a wry sense of humor, Quintos teases the line between tokenism and representation, between assimilation and belonging, offering a potent antidote to the assumption that \"American\" means \"white.\" Encompassing a whole journey from girlhood to motherhood, \u003ci\u003eTwo Brown Dots\u003c\/i\u003e subverts stereotypes to reclaim agency and pride in the realness and rawness and \u003ci\u003eunpretty\u003c\/i\u003eness of a brown girl's body, boldly declaring: We exist, we belong, we are from here, and we will continue to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Danni Quintos\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1950774511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781950774517\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e BOA Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.90w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/21\/2022","brand":"Danni Quintos","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044003246335,"sku":"9781950774517","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a55cfb6f-1ba6-45c9-8f69-4dcd1b6258a7.jpg?v=1684970359","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/two-brown-dots-danni-quintos-9781950774517","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}