{"product_id":"the-cruel-country-9780820350615","title":"The Cruel Country","description":"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Judith Ortiz Cofer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.86h x 5.98w x 0.69d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820350615\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":42935368974451,"sku":"9.78082E+12","price":22.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_2a37a182-9a8a-4e7b-9be4-0863b39e39bd.jpg?v=1742908953","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-cruel-country-9780820350615","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}