{"product_id":"country-songs-for-alice-by-emma-binder-9781961209022","title":"Country Songs for Alice","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn examination of obsession, gender, love, and loss in contemporary rural America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eCountry Songs for Alice\u003c\/em\u003e, a nonbinary, queer narrator passes through the crucible of love, romance, and heartbreak against the backdrop of rural America—a landscape which offers luminous belonging, even as the hazards of homophobia, loneliness, and isolation loom large.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePart roadtrip, part mixtape, these poems are explorations of love, music, romance, pageantry, loneliness, and belonging in the rural places and small towns that seem to preclude queer culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCountry Songs for Alice\u003c\/em\u003e not only tells the story of a relationship and its dissolution but reclaims country western imagery and aesthetics for a queer audience, dousing the narrator's experience in the language of cowboys, horses, rodeos, trucks, and desert skies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47602890637548,"sku":"9781961209022","price":28.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781961209022-country-songs-for-alice.jpg?v=1778049131","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/country-songs-for-alice-by-emma-binder-9781961209022","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}