{"product_id":"zami-by-audre-lorde-9780241351086","title":"Zami","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA soaring, sensual coming-of-age novel, by the legendary \u003cem\u003eBlack, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA little black girl opens her eyes in 1930s Harlem. Around her, a heady swirl of passers-by, car horns, kerosene lamps, the stock market falling, fried bananas, tales of her parents' native Grenada. She trudges to public school along snowy sidewalks, and finds she is tongue-tied, legally blind, left behind by her older sisters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOn she stumbles through teenage hardships—suicide, abortion, hunger, a Christmas spent alone—until she emerges into happiness: an oasis of friendship in Washington Heights, an affair in a dirty factory in Connecticut, and, finally, a journey down to the heat of Mexico, discovering sex, tenderness, and suppers of hot tamales and cold milk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is Audre Lorde's story. It is a rapturous, life-affirming tale of independence, love, work, strength, sexuality and change, rich with poetry and fierce emotional power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46250197254380,"sku":"9780241351086","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780241351086.jpg?v=1741548509","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/zami-by-audre-lorde-9780241351086","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}