{"product_id":"jawbone-paperback-1","title":"Jawbone - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMónica Ojeda\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eSarah Booker\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2022 National Book Award in Translated Literature!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of a deserted cabin, held hostage by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from the Delta Bilingual Academy convene after school, Annelise leads them in thrilling but increasingly dangerous rituals to a rhinestoned, Dior-scented, drag-queen god of her own invention. Even more perilous is the secret Annelise and Fernanda share, rooted in a dare in which violence meets love. Meanwhile, their literature teacher Miss Clara, who is obsessed with imitating her dead mother, struggles to preserve her deteriorating sanity. Each day she edges nearer to a total break with reality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInterweaving pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from from Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous \"creepypastas,\" \u003ci\u003eJawbone\u003c\/i\u003e is an ominous, multivocal novel that explores the terror inherent in the pure potentiality of adolescence and the fine line between desire and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMónica Ojeda\u003c\/strong\u003e (Ecuador, 1988) is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eLa desfiguración Silva\u003c\/i\u003e (Premio Alba Narrativa, 2014), \u003ci\u003eNefando \u003c\/i\u003e(Candaya, 2016), and \u003ci\u003eMandíbula\u003c\/i\u003e (Candaya, 2018), as well as the poetry collections \u003ci\u003eEl ciclo de las piedras \u003c\/i\u003e(Rastro de la Iguana, 2015) and \u003ci\u003eHistoria de la leche\u003c\/i\u003e (Candaya, 2020). Her stories have been published in the anthology \u003ci\u003eEmergencias: Doce cuentos iberoamericanos \u003c\/i\u003e(Candaya, 2014) and the collections \u003ci\u003eCaninos \u003c\/i\u003e(Editorial Turbina, 2017) and \u003ci\u003eLas voladoras \u003c\/i\u003e(Páginas de Espuma, 2020). In 2017, she was included on the Bógota39 list of the best thirty-nine Latin American writers under forty, and in 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in honor of her outstanding literary achievements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSarah Booker \u003c\/strong\u003e(North Carolina, 1989) is a doctoral candidate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a focus on contemporary Latin American narrative and translation studies. She is a literary translator working from Spanish to English and has translated, among others, Cristina Rivera Garza's \u003ci\u003eThe Iliac Crest\u003c\/i\u003e (Feminist Press, 2017; And Other Stories, 2018) and \u003ci\u003eGrieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country\u003c\/i\u003e (Feminist Press, 2020) and Mónica Ojeda's \u003ci\u003eJawbone\u003c\/i\u003e (Coffee House Press, 2021). Her translations have also been published in journals such as the\u003ci\u003e Paris Review, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAsymptote, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLatin American Literature Today, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e3: am magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNashville Review, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMAKE, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eTranslation Review\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 08, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Awards (2022)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42699161632831,"sku":"9781566896214","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/5339b022294fa543053897c9d1241971.webp?v=1765012657","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/jawbone-paperback-1","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}