{"product_id":"a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return-9781250348845b","title":"A Map to the Door of No Return","description":"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"\u003eOne enters a room and history follows; one enters a room and history precedes. History is already seated in the chair in the empty room when one arrives.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSince its first publication in 2001, Dione Brand's groundbreaking exploration of being in the Black Diaspora, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic;\"\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return\u003c\/span\u003e, has emerged as a m\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"\u003eodern classic. The door, in Brand's iconic schema, represents the point of rupture where the ancestors of the Black Diaspora departed one world for another: the place where all names were forgotten, and all beginnings recast. \"This door,\" writes Brand, \"is not mere physicality. It is a spiritual location...Since leaving was never voluntary, return was, and still may be, an intention, however deeply buried. There is a s it says no way in; no return.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 1rem;\"\u003eThrough shards of history, memoir, lyrical investigation, and the unwritten experience of so many descendants of those who passed through the door, Brand constructs a map of this indelible region, culminating in an enduring expression, both definitive and seeking, of what it is to live, think, and create in the wake of colonization.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42821554929744,"sku":"9781250348845B","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781250348845-l.jpg?v=1785884164","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return-9781250348845b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}