{"product_id":"the-twenty-ninth-year","title":"The Twenty-Ninth Year","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of \u003cem\u003eSalt Houses\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past--memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith--winds itself around the present. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone; from alcoholism to recovery; from a single woman to a wife. This collection summons breathtaking chaos, one that seeps into the bones of these odes, the shape of these elegies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love and joy, \u003cem\u003eThe Twenty-Ninth Year\u003c\/em\u003e is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities.","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48836089872589,"sku":"9781328511942","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_bde489d7-5203-4aea-a8a2-60c042159300.jpg?v=1790992728","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/the-twenty-ninth-year","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}