{"product_id":"atlas-of-the-body-9781625578754","title":"Atlas of the Body","description":"Winner of the 2018 CHAUTAUQUA JANUS PRIZE, celebrating an emerging writer's single work of short fiction or nonfiction for daring formal and aesthetic innovations that upset and reorder literary conventions, historical narratives and readers' imaginations.\u003cbr\u003e Growing up in poverty in the American south, Maya yearns to escape and find something better than anything she's known. \" She is so hungry. It is not food, but everything else, the world ... What she needs is not on her street with the one-eyed houses. It is not in the patch of trees she once thought was a forest. It is beyond, somewhere she can't quite imagine.\" Brought to vivid and visceral life through Nicole Cuffy's aching, lyrical prose, Maya's childhood fascination with anatomy and her adult pursuit of a career in medicine leads her to discover what it means to lose-and what it means to break free. \u003cbr\u003e At times raw and at others melodic and tender, \u003ci\u003eAtlas of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply resonant meditation on hunger and the costs of realizing a dream.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Lawrence Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/01\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625578754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 18\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.10w x 0.20d","brand":"Nicole Cuffy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44608333217973,"sku":"9781625578754","price":7.61,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0957a931-a919-48dc-97d2-f94ce36d3cf6.jpg?v=1725374240","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/atlas-of-the-body-9781625578754","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}