{"product_id":"daughter-of-mother-of-pearl-9781644453735","title":"Daughter of Mother-Of-Pearl","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMollusks' innermost selves are absolute secrets because, not only do they hide in shells or distant habitats, but also that's just how it is with innermost selves.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaughter of Mother-of-Pearl\u003c\/i\u003e collects Mandy-Suzanne Wong's reminiscences, dreams, investigations, and experiments in being with small invertebrates whose vulnerability and creativity inspire radical reimaginings of Earthlinghood. In graceful linked essays, Wong wonders: What constitutes a self if a starfish can twist off one of his arms to explore the seafloor on its own? What is an animate being, considering a living snail is also an inanimate shell? What does love mean to a jellyfish, or time to an octopus? Her encounters with nonhuman animals reshape her language into different forms from collage to fragments, and prompt uncommon engagements with various texts. She looks behind words like \"invasive\" and \"endling\" in scientific articles and in poetry, questions natural selection with a bubble-rafting snail, sees the bivalve in Dostoevsky, and studies a speculative treatise about a \"vampire squid from hell.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePersonal yet de-personal, at once tender and challenging, Wong's essays invite humans to rethink our relationship to other beings. Instead of capturing and destroying them, using them as resources or reflections of ourselves, she asks us only to coexist with them--to cherish them although, and because, we cannot fully know them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mandy-Suzanne Wong\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.23h x 5.60w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781644453735\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMandy-Suzanne Wong\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Box, \u003c\/i\u003ea novel, shortlisted for the US\/Canada Republic of Consciousness Prize; the novel \u003ci\u003eDrafts of a Suicide Note\u003c\/i\u003e, a PEN Open Book Award nominee; the essay collection \u003ci\u003eListen, we all bleed\u003c\/i\u003e, a nominee for the PEN\/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction; the chapbooks \u003ci\u003eAwabi\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArtificial Wilderness\u003c\/i\u003e; and the exhibition catalogue \u003ci\u003eAnimals Across Discipline, Time, and Space\u003c\/i\u003e. Nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net, her work appears in \u003ci\u003eBlack Warrior Review, Cincinnati Review, Cleveland Review of Books, Literary Hub, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNecessary Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. She is a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eAsymptote\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Mandy-Suzanne Wong \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47699012583581,"sku":"9781644453735","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_e6cd75b6-89b6-4c57-9053-150421456f93.jpg?v=1772695664","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/daughter-of-mother-of-pearl-9781644453735","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}