{"product_id":"guidebooks-for-the-dead-9781945588440","title":"Guidebooks for the Dead","description":"In \u003ci\u003eGuidebooks for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, Cynthia Cruz returns to a familiar literary landscape in which a cast of extraordinary women struggle to create amidst violence, addiction and poverty. For Marguerite Duras, evoked here in a collage of poems, the process of renaming herself is a \"Quiet death,\" a renewal she envisions as vital to her evolution. In \"Duras (The Flock),\" she is \"high priestess\" to an imagined assemblage of women writers for whom the word is sustenance and weapon, \"tiny pills or bullets, each one packed with memory, packed with a multitude of meaning.\" Joining them is the book's speaker, an \"I\" who steps forward to declare her rightful place among \"these ladies with smeared lipstick and torn hosiery. . . this parade of wrong voices.\" \u003ci\u003eGuidebooks for the Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is both homage to these women and a manifesto for how to survive in a world that seeks to silence those who resist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Cynthia Cruz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/02\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.28lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781945588440","brand":"Four Way Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45156146118793,"sku":"9781945588440","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_1581dd2e-e4fe-4e30-a956-ac7725187291.jpg?v=1768295286","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/guidebooks-for-the-dead-9781945588440","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}