{"product_id":"ordinary-notes-hardcover-by-christina-sharpe","title":"Ordinary Notes Hardcover by Christina Sharpe","description":"\u003ch3\u003e\u003cb\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003ePublisher ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eKnopf Canada (April 4 2023)\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eLanguage ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eEnglish\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eHardcover ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e392 pages\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e1039000584\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e9781039000582\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eItem weight ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e860 g\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e \u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\" style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003eDimensions ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold;\"\u003e16.69 x 3.02 x 23.01 cm\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"item-description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"item-description__wrapper\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"item-description__content-wrapper\" id=\"item-description__content\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe Millions’ \u003c\/i\u003e“Most Anticipated Books of 2023\u003cbr\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times’ \u003c\/i\u003e“19 Works of Nonfiction to Read This Spring”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA dazzlingly inventive, deeply moving, intellectually bracing exploration of pain and beauty, private memory and public monument, art and complexity in contemporary Black life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“I wanted to write about \u003ci\u003esilences\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eterror\u003c\/i\u003e and acts that hover over generations, over centuries. I began by writing about my mother and grandmother.” —from “Note 18” in \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA singular achievement, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e explores with immense care profound questions about loss, and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 brief and urgent notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past—public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal—with present-day realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. Through the striking images and words in these pages, themes and tones echo: sometimes about life, art, language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, photography, and literature—but always attending, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt the heart of \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e is the indelible presence of the author’s mother, Ida Wright Sharpe. “I learned to see in my mother’s house,” writes Sharpe. “I learned how not to see in my mother’s house . . . My mother gifted me a love of beauty, a love of words.” Using these and other gifts and ways of seeing, Sharpe steadily summons a chorus of voices and experiences to become present on the page. She articulates and follows an aesthetic of \"beauty as a method,” collects entries from a community of thinkers towards a “Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness,” and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the process, she forges a new literary form, as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"author_summary\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e CHRISTINA SHARPE\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, Professor, and Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University in Toronto. She is also a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Race, Gender \u0026amp; Class (RGC), at the University of Johannesburg and a Matakyev Research Fellow at the Center for Imagination in the Borderlands at the Arizona State University. She is the author of: \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake: On Blackness and Being\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke University Press, 2016)—named by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Walrus\u003c\/i\u003e as one of the best books of 2016 and a nonfiction finalist for the Hurston\/Wright Legacy Award—and \u003ci\u003eMonstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e (Duke University Press, 2010).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor Residence:\u003c\/b\u003e Toronto, Ontario\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor Hometown:\u003c\/b\u003e Chicago, Illinois USA\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cquillbot-extension-portal\u003e\u003c\/quillbot-extension-portal\u003e","brand":"Best Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":43105706573985,"sku":"BBSNIJ9781039000582","price":42.75,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0525\/2084\/5473\/products\/9781039000582.jpg?v=1689003378","url":"https:\/\/www.bestbookstore.ca\/products\/ordinary-notes-hardcover-by-christina-sharpe","provider":"Best Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}