{"product_id":"afterlife-is-letting-go","title":"Afterlife Is Letting Go","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChosen one of \u003c\/i\u003eBooklist's\u003ci\u003e Top Ten History Books of the Year!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Afterlife Is Letting Go\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditative consideration of Japanese American incarceration during WWII by Brandon Shimoda, author of the PEN Open Book Award-winning \u003cem\u003eThe Grave on the Wall.\u003c\/em\u003e\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMatt Seidel, \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly's\u003c\/em\u003e \"Big Indie Books\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Both personal and choral, \u003cem\u003eThe Afterlife is Letting Go\u003c\/em\u003e is deeply felt, precise, and as generous in its insights as it is unsparing in its critiques of how 'exclusion zones' proliferate and reach across time and space. A stirring, trenchant, and necessary work.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Christina Sharpe, author of \u003cem\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a series of reflective, multi-layered, sometimes multi-voiced essays, poet Brandon Shimoda explores the \"afterlife\" of the U.S. government's forced removal and mass incarceration of Japanese immigrants and Japanese Americans during WWII, excavating the ways these events continue to resonate today. What emerges is a panoramic, yet intimate portrait of intergenerational trauma and healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInformed by personal\/familial history, years of research and travel, including visits to museums, memorials and the ruins of incarceration sites, these essays take us on both a physical and a metaphysical journey. What becomes increasingly clear are the infinite connections between the treatment of Japanese Americans and other forms of oppression, criminalization, dispossession, and state violence enacted by the United States, past, present, and ongoing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brandon Shimoda","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46331817459948,"sku":"9780872869295","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780872869295.jpg?v=1743537985","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/afterlife-is-letting-go","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}