{"product_id":"you-were-watching-from-the-sand-9781636282565","title":"You Were Watching from the Sand","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePlayful, kinetic, and devastating in turn, \u003cem\u003eYou Were Watching from the Sand\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection in which Haitian men, women, and children who find their lives cleaved by the interminably strange bite back at the bizarre with their own oddities. In “belly,” a young woman abandoned by her only living relative makes a person from the mud beside her backyard creek. In “We Feel it in Punta Cana,” a domestic child servant in the Dominican Republic tours through his own lush imagination to make his material conditions more bearable. In “The Oldest Sensation is Anger,” a teenager invites a same-aged family friend into her apartment and uncovers a spate of disturbing secrets about her. Written in a mixture of high lyricism, absurdist comedy, and Haitian cultural witticisms, this is a collection whose dynamism matches that of its characters at every beat and turn.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359833850199,"sku":"9781636282565","price":22.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/you-were-watching-from-the-sand-9781636282565","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}