{"product_id":"city-of-eves-poems-9780816555772","title":"City of Eves: Poems","description":"In \u003ci\u003eCity of Eves, \u003c\/i\u003e Silvia Bonilla evokes the lives and longing of three young women who suspect the wider world is a ship on the verge of departure--and who are determined not to be stranded on shore. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sonia and her two best friends grow up on the urban coast of Ecuador, sharing cigarettes, school uniforms, and a determination to overcome their circumstances even if the price to pay is exile. Full of fantasies and curiosity, the friends navigate hunger at home, absent parents, and religious pressures as they help each other through the pleasures and traumas of adolescence. As their desire for something greater changes from dreams into actions, they pursue escape routes that hover between choice and compulsion: forced marriages, early widowhood, and a death-haunted migration to the United States. Even in the throes of escape, the constraints of their reality always lie waiting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Subtle and unsparing, Bonilla's lyrical poems capture the wild inner horizons and vivid embodiment of youth as it shades into the reflective poignance of maturity marked by disappointment, compromise, and loss. Despite this, it is memories of deep friendship, bonded through shared understanding and aspiration, that lingers. Looking back on her life, Sonia recalls the courage and vitality of girls determined to shape their own futures: \"We lifted Coca-Cola bottles to the \/ opened granadilla of our mouths.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816555772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 7.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Silvia Bonilla","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52239200944309,"sku":"9780816555772","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_fa970c41-b759-4d52-9f28-57ec62923b57.jpg?v=1770917217","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/city-of-eves-poems-9780816555772","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}