{"product_id":"les-portes-9781637681206","title":"Les Portes","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 CAAPP Book Prize, selected by Cameron Awkward-Rich, \u003ci\u003eLes Portes\u003c\/i\u003e traces how harm against women and femmes takes root, recurs, and reshapes itself across generations. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnfolding in three movements--Le Début, Le Passé, and Le Présent--all of which rupture conventional domestic abuse narratives, and drawing heavily from zuihitsu, ekphrasis, erasure, and found forms to mirror the fractured experience of living through and after harm, these poems serve as radical meditations on the power to reflect as resistance. A queer woman caught in an abusive marriage begins to reimagine justice not as punishment but as something restorative, collective, and deeply non-carceral. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her debut book, Nnoka poses the question that propels the collection: \"Where is the path forward \/ that ensures no recurrence?\" Rather than gesture toward resolution, Les Portes dwells inside this question, and what emerges is not consolation but an immense reckoning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Meredith Nnoka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Autumn House Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Caapp Book Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 110\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.4lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781637681206","brand":"Autumn House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45606538903689,"sku":"9781637681206","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_8bd6dbd3-bd35-4879-a757-16333deca11b.jpg?v=1776753615","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/les-portes-9781637681206","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}