{"product_id":"girls-that-never-die-by-safia-elhillo-9781526665546","title":"Girls that Never Die","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncredibly moving... Every single poem is stellar\u003c\/b\u003e - Roxane Gay, author of \u003ci\u003eDifficult Women\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHunger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGirls That Never Die\u003c\/i\u003e, award-winning poet Safia Elhillo reinvents the epic to explore Muslim girlhood and shame, the dangers of being a woman, and the myriad violences enacted and imagined against women’s bodies. Drawing from her own life and family histories, as well as cultural myths and news stories about honor killings and genital mutilation, she interlaces the everyday traumas of growing up a girl under patriarchy with magical realist imaginings of rebellion, autonomy, and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eElhillo writes a new world: women escape their stonings by birds that carry the rocks away; slain girls grow into two, like the hydra of lore, sprouting too numerous to ever be eradicated; circles of women are deemed holy, protected. Ultimately, \u003ci\u003eGirls That Never Die\u003c\/i\u003e is about wrestling ourselves from the threats of violence that constrain our lives, and instead looking to freedom and questioning:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e[what if i will not die]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e[what will govern me then]\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eElhillo's is a voice that walks into the future\u003c\/b\u003e - Ilya Kaminsky\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrilliant. And fierce\u003c\/b\u003e - Aracelis Girmay\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishment\u003c\/b\u003e - Tracy K. Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47362594144492,"sku":"9781526665546","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15162973482731.jpg?v=1772895837","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/girls-that-never-die-by-safia-elhillo-9781526665546","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}