{"product_id":"sea-mothers-swallow-tongues-9781250437907","title":"Sea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Must-Read by \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the German Book Prize, the Swiss Book Prize, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eand the Jürgen Ponto Foundation Literature Prize\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA prizewinning, boundary-breaking debut exploring family, class, history, and the true idea of the self.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA glorious, tender, unsparing exploration of language, family, history, class, self, and the human, \u003ci\u003eSea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues \u003c\/i\u003ebegins with the loss of memory. As their grandmother falls into dementia, the narrator begins to ask questions--to fill in the silences and the gaps. Childhood memories resurface, revealing a path into the past. The maternal line leads toward nature, witchcraft, freedom, and power. Could this be where the narrator belongs? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA quest toward understanding, a story of liberation--from generational trauma, gender constructs, class identity, the limits of language--this narrative invents its own forms, words, and bodies to conjure and cast out the very idea of the unspeakable. It searches for other kinds of knowledge and traditions, other ways of becoming, and reaches for wisdom beyond the human. In \u003ci\u003eSea, Mothers, Swallow, Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e, Kim de l'Horizon reimagines family narratives, abandoning the linear in favor of a fluid, incantatory, expansive search into who we are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250437907\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Kim de l'Horizon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52750186840245,"sku":"9781250437907","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/sea-mothers-swallow-tongues-9781250437907","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}