{"product_id":"this-brutal-house-9781646052677","title":"This Brutal House","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet across the arc of an active protest and the lives behind it - a group of silent vogue Mothers, and one of their charges now working for the city - \u003ci\u003eThis Brutal House\u003c\/i\u003e explores a group's resilience, trauma, and determination to hold truth to power.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the steps of New York's City Hall, five ageing Mothers sit in silent protest. They are the guardians of the vogue ball community - queer men who opened their hearts and homes to countless lost Children, providing safe spaces for them to explore their true selves. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThrough epochs of city nightlife, from draconian to liberal, the Children have been going missing; their absences ignored by the authorities and uninvestigated by the police. In a final act of dissent the Mothers have come to pray: to expose their personal struggle beneath our age of protest, and commemorate their loss until justice is served. Watching from City Hall's windows is city clerk, Teddy. Raised by the Mothers, he is now charged with brokering an uneasy truce. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith echoes of James Baldwin, Marilynne Robinson and Rachel Kushner, Niven Govinden asks what happens when a generation remembered for a single, lavish decade has been forced to grow up, and what it means to be a parent in a confused and complex society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/09\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646052677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320","brand":"Niven Govinden","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42769773068469,"sku":"9781646052677","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_aa0e2ac0-c531-4081-a41f-b8593c144df5.jpg?v=1678837444","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/this-brutal-house-9781646052677","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}