{"product_id":"a-pot-from-shards-paperback","title":"A Pot From Shards - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJune 2008, I logged on-line the name of my long-missing father who I barely knew. I believed the only thing of his that was mine, was his name. Something came onto the screen I had never seen before, a blurry facsimile of his death certificate. Some of it was legible. He died in San Francisco in 1970. That was a complete surprise. There was clearly more information on the screen image, but I couldn't make it out. Writing to the California Board of Health I requested a paper copy. They needed to know my relationship to the deceased. Writing in the word daughter in relation to my father was a unique experience. The paper certificate soon arrived. Everything on the document other than the date of his birth and his profession was a surprise. Suddenly I owned more than his name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a parent goes missing how do we shape and fill the empty space?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd how do we shape and create ourselves from our missing parents?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A Pot from Shards, a memoir, explores absence, imagination, movement, dance, language, psychoanalysis, love, death and the creation of a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67948340838623,"sku":"9781949093322","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/Rj1lX6ID0p9781949093322.webp?v=1791553875","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/a-pot-from-shards-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}