{"product_id":"monster-portraits-paperback","title":"Monster Portraits - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRelentlessly original and brilliantly hybrid, \u003ci\u003eMonster Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e investigates the concept of the monstrous through a mesmerizing combination of words and images. An uncanny and imaginative autobiography of otherness, it offers the fictional record of a writer in the realms of the fantastic shot through with the memories of a pair of Somali-American children growing up in the 1980s. Operating under the sign of two--texts and drawings, brother and sister, black and white, extraordinary and everyday--\u003ci\u003eMonster Portraits\u003c\/i\u003e multiplies, disintegrates, and blends, inviting the reader to find the danger in the banal, the beautiful in the grotesque. Accumulating into a breathless journey and groundbreaking study, these brief fictions and sketches claim the monster as a fragmentary vastness: not the sum but the derangement of its parts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDel Samatar's drawings conjure beings who drag worlds in their wake. World Fantasy Award-winning author Sofia Samatar responds with allusive, critical, and ecstatic meditations. Together they have created a secret history of the mixed-race child, a guide to the beasts of an unknown mythos, and a dreamer's iconography. The monstrous never looked so simultaneously haunting and familiar.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51420924969183,"sku":"9781941628102","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bDExPGk2eE9781941628102.webp?v=1789746636","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/monster-portraits-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}