{"product_id":"black-is-the-body-stories-from-my-grandmothers-time-my-mothers-time-and-mine-1","title":"Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBlack Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eEmily Bernard\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780451493026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2019\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eAnnotated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e240\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Blackness is an art, not a science. It is a paradox: intangible and visceral; a situation and a story. It is the thread that connects these essays, but its significance as an experience emerges randomly, unpredictably. . . . Race is the story of my life, and therefore black is the body of this book.\" \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these twelve deeply personal, connected essays, Bernard details the experience of growing up black in the south with a family name inherited from a white man, surviving a random stabbing at a New Haven coffee shop, marrying a white man from the North and bringing him home to her family, adopting two children from Ethiopia, and living and teaching in a primarily white New England college town. Each of these essays sets out to discover a new way of talking about race and of telling the truth as the author has lived it. \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Is the Body\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most beautiful, elegant memoirs I've ever read. It's about race, it's about womanhood, it's about friendship, it's about a life of the mind, and also a life of the body. But more than anything, it's about love. I can't praise Emily Bernard enough for what she has created in these pages. --Elizabeth Gilbert \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD PRIZE FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PROSE \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY NPR AND \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003eS\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eONE OF MAUREEN CORRIGAN'S 10 UNPUTDOWNABLE READS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Black Is the Body: Stories from My Grandmother's Time, My Mother's Time, and Mine | Emily Bernard | Hardcover | 9780451493026 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1774384","offer_id":49674922492056,"sku":"1774384","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71_xmvwu49L.jpg?v=1786561639","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/black-is-the-body-stories-from-my-grandmothers-time-my-mothers-time-and-mine-1","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}