Leaving Biddle City by Marianne Chan - 9781956046298

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A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan. \nA coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker\u2019s experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as \u201CBiddle City.\u201D Through prose poems, pantoums, ballads, flattened haikus, and thematic autobiographies, Chan maps a territory of intergenerational conflict, racial alienation, and memory and forgetfulness. What\u2019s achieved is a work of play and meticulous beauty, a collection that reframes how we may understand ourselves, our histories, and the places where we are from.\n\nLeaving Biddle City\n\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n\nPlease note that the price advertised is as low as we can go, we do not accept offers.\n\nA brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan. \nA coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina Americ;