{"product_id":"dont-come-back-paperback","title":"Don't Come Back - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of linked lyrical and narrative essays, experimental translations, and reinterpreted myths, Lina Maria Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas launches into an exploration of home and identity, family history and belonging, continually examining what it means to feel familiarity but never really feel at home. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eDon't Come Back\u003c\/i\u003e intermixes translations of Spanish adages and adaptations of major Colombian myths with personal essays about growing up amidst violence, magic, and an unyielding Andean sun. Home is place and time and people and language and history, and none of these are ever set in stone. Attempting to reconcile the irreconcilable and translate the untranslatable-to move smoothly and cohesively between culture, language, and place-Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is torn between spaces, between the aunt who begs her to return to Colombia and the mother who tells her, \"There's nothing here for you, Lina. Don't come back.\" \u003ci\u003eDon't Come Back\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of home and identity that constantly asks, \"If you really could go back, would you?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eLina María Ferreira Cabeza-Vanegas is the winner of the 2016 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award, author of \u003ci\u003eDrown\/Sever\/Sing\u003c\/i\u003e, and Visiting Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 253\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 20, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47185932288249,"sku":"9780814253953","price":24.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/VmxrRm1HOTJFbzNyZlIxSFFzcWkzUT09.webp?v=1767823421","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/dont-come-back-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}