{"product_id":"white-space-essays-on-culture-race-writing-paperback","title":"White Space: Essays on Culture, Race, \u0026 Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer de Leon\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSometime in her twenties, Jennifer De Leon asked herself, \"What would you do if you just gave yourself permission?\" While her parents had fled Guatemala over three decades earlier when the country was in the grips of genocide and civil war, she hadn't been back since she was a child. She gave herself permission to return--to relearn the Spanish that she had forgotten, unpack her family's history, and begin to make her own way. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Alternately honest, funny, and visceral, this powerful collection follows De Leon as she comes of age as a Guatemalan-American woman and learns to navigate the space between two worlds. Never rich or white enough for her posh college, she finds herself equally adrift in her first weeks in her parents' home country. During the years to follow, she would return to Guatemala again and again, meet ex-guerrillera and genocide survivors, get married in the old cobblestoned capital of Antigua, and teach her newborn son about his roots.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJENNIFER DE LEON is author of \u003ci\u003eDon't Ask Me Where I'm From\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eWise Latinas: Writers on Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e. De Leon has published prose in over a dozen literary journals, including \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eIowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMichigan Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and is a GrubStreet instructor and board member. She is assistant professor of creative writing at Framingham State University and makes her home in the Boston area.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 232\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768307745056,"sku":"9781625345677","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/183481c6e459376b635a59e4dc86a85b.webp?v=1780326739","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/white-space-essays-on-culture-race-writing-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}