{"product_id":"wasp-queen-9781625579607","title":"Wasp Queen","description":"From the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review\u003c\/i\u003e's review of \u003ci\u003eWasp Queen\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003cbr\u003e It's easy to allow Claudia Cortese's \u003ci\u003eWasp Queen\u003c\/i\u003e to transport readers to the dark corners of physically-abused, possibly-schizophrenic heroine Lucy. . . \" I kill cheerleaders, bitch,\" Lucy smoothly terrorizes a rival during an anonymous phone call. She commands a boy to give her hickeys, and she fantasizes about her mother's death in a plane crash. But despite this strange behavior, Lucy is a hero for our age: bold, flawed, furious, and able to hold her own in a world that hates her. \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWasp Queen\u003c\/i\u003e centers on body image. While the neighborhood girls call our heroine, \" Lucy Fat Face, Ugly, Stupid, Miss Lardy Lard,\" Lucy replies that her tormentors are \" . . . the skin \/\/ of drums I bang \/\/ to break.\" Lucy's selfies are snapped \" amid Oreos, chocolate ice cream, \/ last slice of pizza in the box.\" . . . At least a third of the collection's poems address the danger of being seen, or the sanctuary of invisibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Black Lawrence Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781625579607\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 100\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 6.00w x 0.30d","brand":"Claudia Cortese","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45187168895157,"sku":"9781625579607","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_eddb900c-46ba-40e7-8b0f-f53aa0518a24.jpg?v=1742271328","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wasp-queen-9781625579607","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}