{"product_id":"9781950774517","title":"Two Brown Dots","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil as the winner of the A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize, Danni Quintos carves a space for brown girls and weird girls in her debut collection of poems.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo Brown Dots\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic, Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky. In stark, honest poems, Quintos recounts the messiness and confusion of being a typical ‘90s kid—watching \u003ci\u003eDirty Dancing\u003c\/i\u003e at sleepovers, borrowing eye shadow out of a friend’s caboodle, crushing on a boy wearing khaki shorts to Sunday mass—while navigating the microagressions of the neighbor kids, the awkwardness of puberty, and the casual cruelties of fellow teenagers. The mixed-race daughter of a dark skinned Filipino immigrant, Quintos retells family stories and Phillipine folklore to try and make sense of an identity with roots on opposite sides of the globe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith clear-eyed candor and a wry sense of humor, Quintos teases the line between tokenism and representation, between assimilation and belonging, offering a potent antidote to the assumption that “American” means “white.” Encompassing a whole journey from girlhood to motherhood, \u003ci\u003eTwo Brown Dots\u003c\/i\u003e subverts stereotypes to reclaim agency and pride in the realness and rawness and \u003ci\u003eunpretty\u003c\/i\u003eness of a brown girl’s body, boldly declaring: We exist, we belong, we are from here, and we will continue to be.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43136653033533,"sku":"9781950774517","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781950774517_p0.jpg?v=1777316024","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781950774517","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}