{"product_id":"the-twenty-ninth-year-9781328511942","title":"The Twenty-Ninth Year","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eWild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of \u003cem\u003eSalt Houses\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Hala Alyan, twenty-nine is a year of transformation and upheaval, a year in which the past--memories of family members, old friends and past lovers, the heat of another land, another language, a different faith--winds itself around the present. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHala's ever-shifting, subversive verse sifts together and through different forms of forced displacement and the tolls they take on mind and body. Poems leap from war-torn cities in the Middle East, to an Oklahoma Olive Garden, a Brooklyn brownstone; from alcoholism to recovery; from a single woman to a wife. This collection summons breathtaking chaos, one that seeps into the bones of these odes, the shape of these elegies. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA vivid catalog of heartache, loneliness, love and joy, \u003cem\u003eThe Twenty-Ninth Year\u003c\/em\u003e is an education in looking for home and self in the space between disparate identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Houghton Mifflin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781328511942\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/19\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019 pg. 78\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019 pg. 32\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Hala Alyan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44241318772917,"sku":"9781328511942","price":16.14,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_febe2207-cd50-4a43-9d21-de6e3fe44e22.jpg?v=1717472672","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-twenty-ninth-year-9781328511942","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}