{"id":28819,"date":"2013-02-18T17:58:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-18T17:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=28819"},"modified":"2016-05-30T00:07:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T00:07:26","slug":"a-feather-on-the-breath-of-god-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=28819","title":{"rendered":"A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/afeatheronthebreathofgod\/SigridNunez\" target=\"_blank\">A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Picador<br \/>\n2005 (Originally published in 1995)<br \/>\n192 pages<br \/>\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780312422738; ISBN10: 0312422733<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sigridnunez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sigrid Nunez<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/afeatheronthebreathofgod\/SigridNunez\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacketupload.macmillanusa.com\/jackets\/high_res\/jpgs\/9780312422738.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents&#8217; stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning, homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet\u2014these are the elements that shape the young woman&#8217;s imagination and her sexuality. It is a story about displacement and loss, and about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Feather on the Breath of God: A Novel Picador 2005 (Originally published in 1995) 192 pages 5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780312422738; ISBN10: 0312422733 Sigrid Nunez A young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese-Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11,8,15],"tags":[2918,9142],"class_list":["post-28819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-picador","tag-sigrid-nunez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28819"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47211,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28819\/revisions\/47211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}