{"product_id":"migratory-birds","title":"Migratory Birds","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the PEN Translation Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Pondering revolutionary Cuba, the Berlin Wall, and the caves of Cappadocia, these essays explore themes of memory, war, movement, and home.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A thoughtful, roving meditation on migration, language, and home.\"--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her prize-winning debut, Mexican essayist Mariana Oliver trains her gaze on migration in its many forms, moving between real cities and other more inaccessible territories: language, memory, pain, desire, and the body. With an abiding curiosity and poetic ease, Oliver leads us through the underground city of Cappadocia, explores the vicissitudes of a Berlin marked by historical fracture, recalls a shocking childhood exodus, and recreates the intimacy of the spaces we inhabit. Blending criticism, reportage, and a travel writing all her own, Oliver presents a brilliant collection of essays that asks us what it means to leave the familiar behind and make the unfamiliar our own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53616316678510,"sku":"9781945492525","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_b185e15d-7f4a-4b93-9ca1-5d382d68dbd0.jpg?v=1775954249","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/migratory-birds","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}