{"product_id":"yara-paperback","title":"Yara - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTamara Faith Berger\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFEATURED IN \u003ci\u003eQUILL \u0026amp; QUIRE\u003c\/i\u003e'S 2023 FALL PREVIEW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eGLOBE AND MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCBC BOOKS\u003c\/i\u003e CANADIAN FICTION TO READ IN FALL 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePUBLISHERS WEEKLY\u003c\/i\u003e BIG INDIE BOOKS OF FALL 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eGLOBE AND MAIL\u003c\/i\u003e BEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE \u003ci\u003eTORONTO STAR\u003c\/i\u003e BEST 100 BOOKS OF 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eMaidenhead\u003c\/i\u003e, a reverse cautionary tale about a young woman exploring the boundaries of sex and belonging in the early 2000s \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistraught that her teenage daughter is in love with a woman a decade older, Yara's mother sends her away from their home in Brazil to Israel, on a Birthright trip for Jewish youth. Freed from her increasingly controlling and jealous girlfriend, Yara is determined to forge her own path and follow her desires. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Birthright takes a debaucherous turn, and Yara flees Israel for Toronto and then California. As she wanders, Yara is forced to reframe her relationship and her ideas around consent. Set in the sex-tape-panicked early 2000s, Yara is a reverse cautionary tale about what the body can teach us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tamara Faith Berger is one of our best writers of the body, capturing in sharp, red-hot prose its raw animal urges, its often confused and contradictory desires, and the way our search for pleasure can be both liberatory and self-annihilating. Like Israel, bodies are contested territories, and in Berger's revelatory new novel, Yara seeks to wrest control and meaning from the forces that seek to instrumentalize hers: nationalism, capitalism, pornography, and lovers.\" - \u003cb\u003eJordan Tannahill, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Listeners\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eYara\u003c\/i\u003e is a complicated novel about the confusions of consent and kinship, the way love makes victims of us all, told with cool, epigrammatic verve. As raw, destabilizing and searching as its titular protagonist, it's Berger's best book yet.\" - \u003cb\u003eJason McBride, author of \u003ci\u003eEat Your Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Canada's finest and boldest writer. Tamara Faith Berger is my favourite ball buster.\" - \u003cb\u003eAnakana Schofield, author of \u003ci\u003eBina: A Novel in Warnings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTamara Faith Berger\u003c\/b\u003e writes fiction, non-fiction and screenplays. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eLie With Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the Whore \u003c\/i\u003e(which were collected by Coach House Books as \u003ci\u003eLittle Cat), \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eMaidenhead\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eKuntalini\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eMaidenhead\u003c\/i\u003e won the 2012 Believer Book Award. Her fifth book, \u003ci\u003eQueen Solomon\u003c\/i\u003e, was published by Coach House Books in 2018 and was nominated for a Trillium Book Award. She has a BFA in Studio Art from Concordia University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia. She lives and works in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696002764863,"sku":"9781552454671","price":22.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/fd83a52f89817888f54a8a793ccdf4e6.webp?v=1765005858","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/yara-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}