{"product_id":"the-cruel-country-paperback","title":"The Cruel Country - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJudith Ortiz Cofer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I am learning the alchemy of grief--how it must be carefully measured and doled out, inflicted--but I have not yet mastered this art,\" writes Judith Ortiz Cofer in \u003ci\u003eThe Cruel Country\u003c\/i\u003e. This richly textured, deeply moving, lyrical memoir centers on Cofer's return to her native Puerto Rico after her mother has been diagnosed with late-stage lung cancer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCofer's work has always drawn strength from her life's contradictions and dualities, such as the necessities and demands of both English and Spanish, her travels between and within various mainland and island subcultures, and the challenges of being a Latina living in the U.S. South. Interlaced with these far-from-common tensions are dualities we all share: our lives as both sacred and profane, our negotiation of both child and adult roles, our desires to be the person who belongs and also the person who is different. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat we discover in \u003ci\u003eThe Cruel Country \u003c\/i\u003eis how much Cofer has heretofore held back in her vivid and compelling writing. This journey to her mother's deathbed has released her to tell the truth within the truth. She arrives at her mother's bedside as a daughter overcome by grief, but she navigates this cruel country as a writer--an acute observer of detail, a relentless and insistent questioner.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJudith Ortiz Cofer\u003c\/b\u003e is the Regents and Franklin Professor of English and Creative Writing Emerita at the University of Georgia. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Latin Deli: Telling the Lives of Barrio Women\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAn Island Like You: Stories of the Barrio\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWoman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer\u003c\/i\u003e; and many other books. The University of Georgia Press published her first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Line of the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1989.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.69 x 8.86 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52445963977011,"sku":"9780820350615","price":32.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ME96Y0M0eFlRazA5bjBNUkxMM3B3dz09.webp?v=1758974283","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-cruel-country-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}