{"product_id":"giving-birth-to-my-father","title":"Giving Birth to My Father","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eGiving Birth to My Father\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis about learning to live with a loss that seems simply too heavy to bear. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eFirst, Tusiata Avia tells the imagined story – the one of how things should go – followed by the story of what really happens. As her father travels through his last days and into the arms of his tupu'aga, transformed, the family gathers around him with their love and raw need, and their suffering turns to storm clouds. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eFor Avia, his death is a beginning. Parent and child have switched places as the river carries them downstream, and she sees her father with new eyes. But this is also a time of not knowing to whom she belongs and where she will be welcome now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003eThis is an extraordinarily rich poetic work about grief and renewal that will rearrange its readers.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGiving Birth to My Father\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003etakes in a world of family and memory, including a sequence of poems about a much-loved brother as he faces a life-threatening injury. It is a book about ways of holding one another even after we are gone.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan lang=\"EN-GB\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e21 x 16 x 1cm\u003cbr\u003esoftcover\u003cbr\u003e112 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISBN 978-1776922918\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upstart Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47992608686330,"sku":"14446","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1296\/6027\/files\/14446-web-giving-birth-to-my-father-book-2_bfbafa11-68ab-4e40-b7f4-4bbb5bca315e.jpg?v=1780630819","url":"https:\/\/shop.aucklandartgallery.com\/products\/giving-birth-to-my-father","provider":"Auckland Art Gallery Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}