{"product_id":"9780810146488-portrait-of-us-burning","title":"Portrait of Us Burning","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoems\u003cbr\u003eA powerful debut collection exploring one family’s pursuit of the American Dream. Sebastian Paramo renders a semi-autobiographical collection, utilizing self-portraiture and memory to uncover how his Texan, working-class, Mexican American identity shapes his relationship to his stepbrother and to his family’s burning desire to become American.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful debut collection exploring one family’s pursuit of the American Dream\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e SebastiÁn H. PÁramo renders a semi-autobiographical collection, utilizing self-portraiture and memory to uncover how his Texan, working-class, Mexican American identity shapes his relationship to his stepbrother and to his family’s burning desire to become American.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortrait of Us Burning\u003c\/i\u003e begins with the humble picture of an immigrant American family. This picture starts to disintegrate—and, ultimately, burns—with the need to understand an inciting event that haunts the family throughout the second half of the collection. As the poems gather force and the picture dissolves further, PÁramo asks us again and again: What does it mean to burn while becoming a part of a whole?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41539927474273,"sku":"9780810146488","price":13.91,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/products\/orig_11179752_2899439.jpg?v=1710315793","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780810146488-portrait-of-us-burning","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}