{"id":393,"date":"2020-06-01T00:34:09","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/?p=393"},"modified":"2020-06-01T00:34:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T05:34:09","slug":"blurbs-are-in-for-our-next-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/2020\/06\/01\/blurbs-are-in-for-our-next-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Blurbs are in for our next book!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Howling Bird Press is excited to publish Self, Divided<\/em> by John Medeiros in fall 2020. Here is early praise for the winner of the 2020 nonfiction prize! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cSelf, Divided<\/em> is an immersive journey to the self\u2019s \u2018true north\u2019 against the backdrop of identical twinship, growing up working class, coming out, and living with HIV\/AIDS. Captivating not only for Medeiros\u2019s evocative lyricism, but also for his original and imaginative use of narrative space, his quest to create an identity all his own is a sad, funny, and memorable story of growth against the odds, written in the language of hard-won victory.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Brian Malloy, author of The Year of Ice<\/em> and After Francesco<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMost memoirs grapple with the individual seen again, but for John Medeiros this mirroring is literal. Self, Divided<\/em> considers the author\u2019s life as an identical twin. One brother is gay and HIV-positive, the other a straight Christian, each part of a whole that will not divide, even in times of desperate separation. How can two men, intermingled since birth but whose life paths diverge, come to truly brother one another? Rendered in lyric form that is at once severed and continuous, this memoir pulses deep.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Barrie Jean Borich, author of\u00a0Apocalypse, Darling<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Body Geographic<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Howling Bird Press is excited to publish Self, Divided by John Medeiros in fall 2020. Here is early praise for the winner of the 2020 nonfiction prize! \u201cSelf, Divided is an immersive journey to the self\u2019s \u2018true north\u2019 against the backdrop … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":680,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[17],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/680"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":400,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engage.augsburg.edu\/howlingbird\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}