{"product_id":"the-glad-hand-of-god-points-backwards-poems-9781682831502","title":"The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards: Poems","description":"In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman's relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and different future. These poems celebrate ritual, love, and female sexuality; they bear witness to a dark history, and introduce us to \"our God, the \/ collector of stories \/ and bodies,\" a force somehow responsible for both death and liberation. Here, Mennies examines survival, assimilation, and intermarriage, subjects bound together by complex, if sometimes compromised, ties to the speaker's Judaism. Through wit and careful prosody, \u003ci\u003eThe Glad Hand of God Points Backwards\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare the struggles and triumphs experienced through a teenage girl's coming of age, showing the reader what it means to become--and remain--a Jewish woman in America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rachel Mennies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Tech University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/15\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Walt McDonald First-Book Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682831502","brand":"Texas Tech University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43211683954825,"sku":"9781682831502","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_ea9e1d12-02a1-491e-91aa-446fc9f9c2fa.jpg?v=1734428649","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/the-glad-hand-of-god-points-backwards-poems-9781682831502","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}