{"product_id":"breaking-points-9781625570192","title":"Breaking Points","description":"\u003cp\u003eFiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. In thirteen slick; innovative; and gut-wrenching flashes; the young women and girls in BREAKING POINTS; the debut chapbook from Chelsea Stickle; hit the walls around them--walls constructed by family; friends; significant others; and insidious cultural perils. Stranger danger doesn't disappear when you start wearing a push-up bra; notes one of Stickle's pre-teen narrators when confronted by a leering threat that will forever sever her path from that of her best friend. In How to Make Stock with Thanksgiving Leftovers; a queer young woman takes us through a wry recipe for boiling turkey stock and raging against small-minded relatives and the traumas they inflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in the style of a classic glossy magazine personality quiz; How Mature Are You?: A Quiz provides whip-smart A; B; C responses to situations such as: When that bitch in your book club calls you a space cadet then furnishes the reader with irreverent; pull-no-punches results. This is a collection as darkly humorous as it is heartbreaking and disquieting. Within Stickle's thirteen walled worlds; some will break; some adapt; and others soar. Pushed to the breaking point; none escape unscathed.\u003c\/p\u003e\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 10\/26\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625570192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs","brand":"Chelsea Stickle","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41187177169077,"sku":"9781625570192","price":8.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_81f00f29-355a-4647-8b8f-831a6d1f6693.jpg?v=1633436467","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/breaking-points-9781625570192","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}