{"product_id":"the-lesser-tragedy-of-death-paperback-by-cristina-garcia","title":"The Lesser Tragedy of Death Paperback by Cristina García","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n                \n                    \n                        \u003ch2\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Details\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n                        \u003cul\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cb\u003eAkashic Books, Ltd.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e(2010-05-04)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003eEnglish\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e95\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003epages\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e9781936070015\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eItem Weight\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e368.55\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003egrams\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                            \u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cstrong\u003e0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cb\u003ecm\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n                        \u003c\/ul\u003e\n                        \u003cbr\u003e\n                        \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe highly anticipated debut poetry collection from the best-selling author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eDreaming in Cuban.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Lesser Tragedy of Death\u003c\/i\u003e is a brave and moving tribute to a brother gone astray. With skill, unflinching honesty, and redemptive compassion, Cristina García tracks his marvelous, complex, and errant life . . . These poems are the beautiful, painful, astonishing result of a journey to hell and back in search of the brother she loves. With this first book of poems, Cristina García, one of our best novelists and storytellers, proves herself to be a talented poet as well.” —Julia Alvarez, author of \u003ci\u003eSaving the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“Cristina García has the courage to look tragedy in the eye without flinching . . . In spare, luminous brushstrokes of language, García paints a series of portraits, from the boy who fell off a bicycle to the desperate mugger wrestling with an old woman over her purse. The cumulative effect is haunting, yet ultimately redemptive. There is power in García’s insistence that we see her brother as a human being, in all his complexity and mystery. You won’t forget these poems, or the story they tell.” —Martin Espada, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Republic of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBlack Goat is an independent poetry imprint of Akashic Books created and curated by award-winning Nigerian author Chris Abani (author of \u003ci\u003eBecoming Abigail\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSong for Night\u003c\/i\u003e). Black Goat is committed to publishing well-crafted poetry with a focus on experimental or thematically challenging work. The series aims to create a proportional representation of female poets and non-American poets, particularly poets from Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn a collection of poems that is part biography, part dialogue, part history and part chorale, \u003ci\u003eThe Lesser Tragedy of Death\u003c\/i\u003e aims to capture the ephemeral, brutal life of one unnamed “brother.” His sister’s voice provides the narrative thrust—probing, questioning, regretful—revisiting scenes from their past and arguing with her brother over the family legacy and her complicity in his demise.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat happened that led this gentle, generous boy to a world of drugs, homelessness, and crime? What upheavals, personal and political, spun their lives in such radically different directions? Who bears responsibility? The sister tries to piece together their stories from discordant shards, hearsay, speculation, witnessing. 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