{"product_id":"9781632461582","title":"Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me And Has Failed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Everyday Something Has Tried to Kill Me And Has Failed\u003c\/em\u003e is imbued with the same kind of unapologetic, raw and unflinching honesty as McLarin’s previous work, which makes it a welcome and timely read. McLarin wrangles boldly with topics such as aging and anti-Blackness, and in these essays I feel seen at a time when we—Black women approaching sixty and beyond—feel invisible, and\/or seen in the worst possible light.” —\u003cb\u003eDEESHA PHILYAW\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Lives of Church Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award for Fiction, the Story Prize, LA Times Book Prize, and finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The Black female body in peril, a gun purchased in response to the surge of white nationalism, the loss of racial innocence—the cumulative effect of these and the other essays in this provocative, exquisite collection confirms two things: there are prophets among us whom we ignore at our peril, and the spirit of Baldwin lives on. And for anyone familiar with McLarin’s work, you will find in \u003ci\u003eEveryday Something Has Tried to Kill Me And Has Failed \u003c\/i\u003econfirmation of this too: her assessments of America’s social landscape remain as powerful as the love she holds for her family, her friends, and her race.” —\u003cb\u003eJERALD WALKER\u003c\/b\u003e, author, \u003ci\u003eHow To Make A Slave and Other Essays\u003c\/i\u003e, finalist for the National Book Award in Non-Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\n“…come celebrate\u003cbr\u003ewith me that everyday \u003cbr\u003esomething has tried to kill me \u003cbr\u003eand has failed.”\u003cbr\u003e―from Lucille Clifton, “won’t you celebrate with me.”\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What does periracial mean? It’s a word I made up while casting about for a way to capture both the chronic nature of structural injustice and inequity of America and my own weariness. A way to label life under that particular tooth in the zipper of interlocking systems of oppression bell hooks called “imperialist white supremacist capitalist heteropatriarchy.” (What a lot to resist. No wonder we’re so tired!) To capture the endless cycle of progress and backlash which has shaped my one small life here in America during the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st. To counter the idea―now largely abandoned but innocently believed for most of my adult life by white Americans on both ends of the political spectrum― that America has ever been post-racial. To suggest that I suspect, at this sad rate, we never will be.”―\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eKim McLarin\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e, on the meaning of Periracial\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith accumulated wisdom and sharp-eyed clarity, \u003cem\u003eEveryday Something Has Tried to Kill Me And Has Failed \u003c\/em\u003eaddresses the joys and hardships of being an older Black woman in contemporary, “periracial” America. Award-winning author Kim McLarin utilizes deeply personal experiences to illuminate the pain and power of aging, Blackness and feminism, in the process capturing the endless cycle of progress and backlash that has long shaped race and gender.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kim McLarin","offers":[{"title":"Ig Publishing |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-11-24","offer_id":44230065258751,"sku":"9781632461582","price":28.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_8af9f846-2ca7-45ac-a84a-29c422fd6f41.jpg?v=1692998143","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781632461582","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}