{"product_id":"i-become-a-delight-to-my-enemies-isbn-9780771073571","title":"I Become a Delight to My Enemies","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eDark, cutting, and coursed through with bright flashes of humour, crystalline imagery, and razor-sharp detail, \u003ci\u003eI Become a Delight to My Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e is a gut-wrenchingly powerful, breathtakingly beautiful meditation on the violence and shame inflicted on the female body and psyche.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn experimental fiction, \u003ci\u003eI Become a Delight to My Enemie\u003c\/i\u003es uses many different voices and forms to tell the stories of the women who live in an uncanny Town, uncovering their experiences of shame, fear, cruelty, and transcendence. Sara Peters combines poetry and short prose vignettes to create a singular, unflinching portrait of a Town in which the lives of girls and women are shaped by the brutality meted upon them and by their acts of defiance and yearning towards places of safety and belonging. Through lucid detail, sparkling imagery and illumination, Peters' individual characters and the collective of The Town leap vividly, fully formed off the page. A hybrid in form, \u003ci\u003eI Become a Delight to My Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e is an awe-inspiring example of the exquisite force of words to shock and to move, from a writer of exceptional talent and potential.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eI Become a Delight to My Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The subject matter, while in some senses timeless, is also very much of the present moment. \u003ci\u003eI Become\u003c\/i\u003e is a book of voices, disembodied, all of its characters from a nameless town where they experienced sexual abuse and terror. Contributing to the sense of secrecy and shame, some of the text appears occasionally as marginalia, like whispered comments from the periphery of a town’s main square. No two pages are alike. The text is often in fragments, abruptly cut, as if the speakers are hesitant about how much they should say. . . . [A]n aural immersion in a town of people who need to speak out, to reveal truths, to push back against the shame, to hold out hope.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“If \u003ci\u003eDelight\u003c\/i\u003e demands a different type of engagement—it is its own many-headed beast, consisting of mini fables, prose vignettes, poems whose lines float unmoored in white space, story shards, marginalia—it also offers a different type of reward for the persevering reader. Making sense of historical and immediate trauma is not easily pondered or plotted. It deserves a form that challenges us to slow and struggle and sit with the stories that break us.”\u003cb\u003e —\u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “\u003ci\u003eI Become a Delight to My Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e takes massive risks that pay off often, especially when Peters refuses to tone things down and turn away. Like her excellent poetry debut, her fiction debut bodes well for her future as an author and is a surprisingly audacious offering from a new Canadian imprint.”\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003e—Winnipeg Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “[U]ncanny and vivid. . . . Peters’s stylistic hybridity invites the reader into gaps and absences; the result is a kind of complicit questioning of narratives that must be unlearned, relearned, and inhabited.” \u003cb\u003e—Quill \u0026amp; Quire \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eI Become a Delight to My Enemies\u003c\/i\u003e is a clever, genre-blending work that portrays a complex and deeply affective picture of feminism and femininity.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Puritan\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSara Peters was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, and lives in Toronto. She completed an MFA at Boston University, and was a Stegner fellow at Stanford. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Threepenny Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. Her first book is \u003ci\u003e1996\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Strange Light","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301140386021,"sku":"NP9780771073571","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780771073571.jpg?v=1767729609","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/i-become-a-delight-to-my-enemies-isbn-9780771073571","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}