{"product_id":"the-glad-hand-of-god-points-backwards-9780896728547","title":"The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards","description":"\"Coming of age as a Jewish woman in America\" \u003cbr\u003e In her first poetry collection, Rachel Mennies chronicles a young woman s relationship with a complicated God, crafting a nuanced world that reckons with its past as much as it yearns for a new and different future. These poems celebrate ritual, love, and female sexuality; they bear witness to a dark history, and introduce us to our God, the \/ collector of stories \/ and bodies, a force somehow responsible for both death and liberation. Here, Mennies examines survival, assimilation, and intermarriage, subjects bound together by complex, if sometimes compromised, ties to the speaker s Judaism. Through wit and careful prosody, \"The Glad Hand of God Points Backwards \"lays bare the struggles and triumphs experienced through a teenage girl s coming of age, showing the reader what it means to becomeand remaina Jewish woman in America.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Tech University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780896728547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 79\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Jewish Book Award - Finalist","brand":"Rachel Mennies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36645795692700,"sku":"9780896728547","price":18.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a7c04be8-3503-4cce-92fa-5b7f0a2a9953.jpg?v=1603862141","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-glad-hand-of-god-points-backwards-9780896728547","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}