{"product_id":"boats-in-the-attic-9781531500856","title":"Boats in the Attic","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoats in the Attic\u003c\/i\u003e is a sweeping, poignant exploration of what it means to be an individual and, in particular, what it means to be a parent of young children, in our current time of crisis. Errands must be run, the radio plays, and the child wants the birthday girl's balloon--all while sea levels are rising and wild wolves roam the acres of Chernobyl, \"developing a cryptography to a century \/ to which we are not invited.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this dynamic collection, Powell intersperses lyric flight and prose fragments with metacommentary, nuance, and a beguiling sense of humor. At the same time, these pieces are securely tethered to the material difficulties of being a human in today's world, where a child must participate in a lockdown drill at his preschool and a dying woman turns to Reddit to fund her efforts to be cryogenetically preserved. Conversations between the speaker and her children trace the beauty and terror of existential indeterminacy: \"We begin to consider other planets -- \/ Will they have us?\" In a long piece titled \"Book of Revelation,\" the speaker dreams that \"below the bed \/ is an encyclopedia of lost things,\" a phrase that captures the collection's wide range and its categorizing eye. Powell turns to astronomy, \u003ci\u003eAlice in Wonderland\u003c\/i\u003e, Millerism, and culinary cruelty, with a uniquely celebratory and elegiac voice, all in an effort to understand the depths, and effects, of the human appetite for pleasure, power, and escape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531500856\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 102\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.32lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d","brand":"Alison Powell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42362441171125,"sku":"9781531500856","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8a5b7aa4-687e-48bb-b501-80fea9ad440b.jpg?v=1662435513","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/boats-in-the-attic-9781531500856","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}