{"product_id":"dear-memory-letters-on-writing-silence-and-grief","title":"Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief","description":"A Firecracker Award Finalist in Creative Nonfiction\nAn Electric Literature Favorite Nonfiction Book of the Year\nA Kirkus Best Book of the Month\n\nFrom poet Victoria Chang, a collection of literary letters and mementos on the art of remembering across generations.\nFor Victoria Chang, memory “isn’t something that blooms, but something that bleeds internally.” It is willed, summoned, and dragged to the surface. The remembrances in this collection of letters are founded in the fragments of stories her mother shared reluctantly, and the silences of her father, who first would not and then could not share more. They are whittled and sculpted from an archive of family relics: a marriage license, a letter, a visa petition, a photograph. And, just as often, they are built on the questions that can no longer be answered.\nDear Memory is not a transcription but a process of simultaneously shaping and being shaped, knowing that when a writer dips their pen into history, what emerges is poetry. In carefully crafted collages and missives on trauma, loss, and Americanness, Victoria Chang grasps on to a sense of self that grief threatens to dissipate.\nIn letters to family, past teachers, and fellow poets, as the imagination, Dear Memory offers a model for what it looks like to find ourselves in our histories.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1571313923\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1571313923.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Chang, Victoria\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Gently used with minimal wear on the corners and cover. A few pages may contain light highlighting or writing, but the text remains fully legible. Dust jacket may be missing, and supplemental materials like CDs or codes may not be included. May be ex-library with library markings. Ships promptly!  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41538990899258,"sku":"DBV.1571313923.G","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1571313923-0.jpg?v=1784434056","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/dear-memory-letters-on-writing-silence-and-grief","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}