{"product_id":"dead-grandmas-are-universal-9798349293696","title":"Dead Grandmas Are Universal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDead Grandmas Are Universal\u003c\/em\u003e is a raw, intimate poetry collection that traces the emotional inheritance of trauma, grief, queerness, mental illness, and survival through the lens of womanhood. Across deeply confessional free verse poems, the author explores complicated legacies passed down through generations of women: addiction, abuse, self-destruction, resilience, and the desperate longing to be loved without disappearing in the process.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeginning with the death of LaPorte's grandmother, the collection moves through memories of fractured family dynamics, emotionally absent parents, abusive relationships, psychiatric struggles, sapphic desire, and the slow, uneven process of healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLaPorte's poems balance stark vulnerability with vivid imagery-swamps, marshes, barbed wire, fire, flowers, celestial bodies, and decay recur throughout the manuscript as symbols of both destruction and rebirth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection is sharply contemporary, weaving together references to antidepressants, therapy, queer identity, internet-age loneliness, and Midwestern life with lyrical meditations on mortality and connection. While many poems inhabit despair, the manuscript ultimately bends toward endurance: reclaiming identity, building chosen family, and learning to live beyond inherited pain.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDead Grandmas Are Universal\u003c\/em\u003e speaks to readers who have wrestled with grief, generational trauma, mental illness, and the complicated act of becoming whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Marissa Laporte\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Marissa Laporte Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 84\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.17d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798349293696","brand":"Marissa Laporte Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46939904770185,"sku":"9798349293696","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_866270ee-2bb9-47ae-b2bb-833a334b9349.jpg?v=1781659898","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/dead-grandmas-are-universal-9798349293696","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}