{"product_id":"what-that-pig-said-to-jesus-on-the-uneasy-permanence-of-immigrant-life-9781607815495","title":"What That Pig Said to Jesus: On the Uneasy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePhilip Garrison says his book of essays is “in praise of mixed feelings,” particularly the mixed feelings he and his neighbors have toward the places they came from. His neighborhood is the Columbia Plateau, one of many North American nodes of immigration. Following a meandering, though purposeful trail, Garrison catches hillbillies and newer Mexican arrivalsin ambiguous, wary encounters on a set four hundred years in the making, built on a foundation of Native American displacement. Garrison is the product of the earlier surge of new arrivals: from the 1930s to the1970s, those he calls hillbillies left such mid-nation states as Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Kansas, and the Dakotas for the West. The more recent wave, from 1990 to 2010, came mostly from the central plateauof Mexico. These are folks with whom Garrison communes in multiple ways. Anecdotes from sources as varied as pioneer diaries, railroad promotions,family Bibles, Wikipedia, and local gossip “portray the region's immigration as a kind of identity makeover, one that takes the form first of breakdown, then of reassembly, and finally of renewal.” Garrison’s mixof slangy memoir and anthropological field notes shines light on the human condition in today’s West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Garrison bears witness in vivid prose to the seemingly mundane, and in doing so he makes the mundane become provocative. This is a book I could read over and over and each time find new insights into the human condition.”\u003cbr\u003e —Ken Lamberton, author of \u003ci\u003eWilderness and Razor Wire: A Naturalist’s Observations from Prison\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Garrison sets up vivid and powerful contrasts and comparisons, snapshots of farflung cultures, mexicano\/hillbilly, fragmented, then cohering—or beginning to cohere—in novel ways. An important, deeply knowledgeable portrait of time and place.”\u003cbr\u003e —C. M. Mayo, author of \u003ci\u003eMetaphysical Odyssey into the Mexican Revolution \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e PART ONE. Identity Theft\u003cbr\u003e Life and Times\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 1\u003cbr\u003e Before Long, in a While\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 2\u003cbr\u003e Dear Tucker\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 3\u003cbr\u003e Aguas\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 4\u003cbr\u003e Somewhere Nobody Else Wanted to Live\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 5\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e PART TWO. What You Hear Secondhand\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 6\u003cbr\u003e Hearsay\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 7\u003cbr\u003e Anniversaries\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 8\u003cbr\u003e Uncle Lou versus the Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 9\u003cbr\u003e Fire and Elephants\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 10\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e PART THREE. What Emerges from the Husk\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 11\u003cbr\u003e Letter from Manastash Creek\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 12\u003cbr\u003e Casta\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 13\u003cbr\u003e Everyone Agrees\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 14\u003cbr\u003e Letter from Millpond Manor\u003cbr\u003e Testimonio 15\u003cbr\u003e El Chacuaco\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of Utah Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51041644052823,"sku":"9781607815495","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781607815495.jpg?v=1750951124","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/what-that-pig-said-to-jesus-on-the-uneasy-permanence-of-immigrant-life-9781607815495","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}