{"title":"Arantza García Ferrand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArantza García Ferrand\u003c\/strong\u003e offers a unique exploration of contemporary art and culture, blending insightful commentary with a creative narrative style. Her work, including titles like \u003cem\u003eCotton-stuffed\u003c\/em\u003e, engages readers with thought-provoking reflections on modern life through an artistic lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders drawn to \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e will find García Ferrand’s writing both evocative and enriching, inviting a deeper appreciation of the subtle connections between everyday experiences and the wider cultural landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"cotton-stuffed-by-arantza-garcia-ferrand-9781764555890","title":"Cotton-stuffed","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e‘tulip lips and birdhouse chests. broken alarm clocks and lipstick-stained slot machines. butter. goggles. candles. a garland made of raisins. she drinks cherries and grows weeds and mistakes her garden bed for a dustpan. she is old western and new hollywood and an answering machine you can’t stop calling.’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur protagonist lives beneath the gaze of a tapestry in the home of her bell-tongued grandmother. Even in its absence, the gaze of the tapestry follows her – as her family migrate from Peru to Australia and begins to splinter apart, as she grasps to a tentative place on monkey bars and in office cubicles, as she learns to wax her body and to morph herself for ideas of love – until something changes her vision of all that is beautiful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom award-winning poet Arantza García Ferrand, \u003cem\u003eCotton-stuffed\u003c\/em\u003e is a collaged collection of idioms and ephemera and conversations with succulents. It is a questioning of archives and who is allowed into them. And mostly, it is a coming-of-age love letter to queer relationships, migrant families and anyone feeling the tugs and shifts of identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68068859150572,"sku":"9781764555890","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781764555890-cotton-stuffed-1.jpg?v=1793819463"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/arantza-garcia-ferrand.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}