{"product_id":"among-communists-a-memoir-9781800174061","title":"Among Communists: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eNorthern Ireland is on fire. But rather than attending to the conflict raging around her, the young Siné ad Morrissey is obsessed with the Cold War, East Germany and the utopia of the USSR.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the distinctive cultural milieu of Belfast Communism - its smoky meeting rooms, protests, marches, sports days, holidays, discos and Party bazaars - \u003cem\u003eAmong Communists\u003c\/em\u003e tells a history of the Troubles unlike any other whilst simultaneously charting a young writer's journey into poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, surprising everyone - Western Communists most of all - Morrissey's family followed suit and fell apart. This memoir charts those personal and political earthquakes, weaving together a lyrical exploration of familial love, belief, contrariness and loss, and of the galvanising power of sudden endings to make and re-make the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lives and Letters\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/28\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781800174061\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304","brand":"Sin\u0026#195;\u0026#169;ad Morrissey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52750323286197,"sku":"9781800174061","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_7b578ffc-4274-4c10-97ad-441b468631bb.jpg?v=1782836754","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/among-communists-a-memoir-9781800174061","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}