{"product_id":"umbilical-cord-paperback","title":"Umbilical Cord - 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\u003eHasan Namir\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDear Child, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOnce upon a time, \u003cbr\u003e Your dads wanted to have a baby. \u003cbr\u003e It was a life-long dream of ours. \u003cbr\u003e We were always hopeful.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir shares a joyful collection about parenting, fatherhood and hope. These warm free-verse poems document the journey that he and his husband took to have a child. Between love letters to their young son, Namir shares insight into his love story with his husband, the complexities of the IVF surrogacy process and the first year as a family of three. \u003ci\u003eUmbilical Cord\u003c\/i\u003e is a heartfelt book for parents or would be parents, with a universal message of hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHasan Namir is an Iraqi-Canadian author. He graduated from Simon Fraser University with a BA in English and received the Ying Chen Creative Writing Student Award. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGod in Pink\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), which won the Lambda Literary Award for Best Gay Fiction and was chosen as one of the Top 100 Books of 2015 by \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has also been in media across Canada. He is also the author of the poetry book \u003ci\u003eWar\/Torn\u003c\/i\u003e (2019, Book*hug Press), which received the 2020 Barbara Gittings Honor Book Award from the Stonewall Book Awards, and the children's book \u003ci\u003eThe Name I Call Myself\u003c\/i\u003e (2020). Hasan lives in Vancouver with his husband and child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.4 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47351696359673,"sku":"9781771667180","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/THVMWE1YUGV2dzduTDY3NEIyY0wxdz09.webp?v=1769800794","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/umbilical-cord-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}