{"product_id":"9781552454671","title":"Yara","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFEATURED IN \u003ci\u003eQUILL \u0026amp; QUIRE\u003c\/i\u003e'S 2023 FALL PREVIEW\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eMaidenhead\u003c\/i\u003e, a reverse cautionary tale about a young woman exploring the boundaries of sex and belonging in the early 2000s\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistraught that her teenage daughter is in love with a woman a decade older, Yara’s mother sends Yara away from their home in Brazil on a Birthright trip to Israel for Jewish youth. Freed from her increasingly controlling and jealous girlfriend, Yara is determined to forge her own path and follow her desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Birthright takes a debaucherous turn, and Yara flees Israel for Toronto, where she begins to see her relationship in the new, uncertain light of sexual abuse; then California, where she plays with the line between erotic film and real life. As Yara wanders, she tries to keep her head above water, connecting the dots between the lands in which she finds herself, the places she has been, and the places she is headed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Tamara Faith Berger is one of our best writers of the body, capturing in sharp, red-hot prose its raw animal urges, its often confused and contradictory desires, and the way our search for pleasure can be both liberatory and self-annihilating. Like Israel, bodies are contested territories, and in Berger's revelatory new novel, Yara seeks to wrest control and meaning from the forces that seek to instrumentalize hers: nationalism, capitalism, pornography, and lovers.\" – \u003cb\u003eJordan Tannahill, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Listeners\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eYara\u003c\/i\u003e is a complicated novel about the confusions of consent and kinship, the way love makes victims of us all, told with cool, epigrammatic verve. As raw, destabilizing and searching as its titular protagonist, it's Berger's best book yet.\" – \u003cb\u003eJason McBride, author of \u003ci\u003eEat Your Mind\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tamara Faith Berger (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Coach House Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-10-17","offer_id":44230047727871,"sku":"9781552454671","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_92e44bc5-f2f5-45cb-8fa8-1a69df9ceff3.jpg?v=1692992839","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781552454671","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}