{"product_id":"washes-prays","title":"Washes, Prays","description":"\u003cb\u003eRBC Bronwen Wallace Award winner Noor Naga's bracing debut, a novel-in-verse about a young woman's romantic relationship with a married man and her ensuing crisis of faith.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 Arab American Book Award - George Ellenbogen Poetry Award, Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePat Lowther Memorial Award, Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGerald Lampert Memorial Award, Longlist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFred Cogswell Award For Excellence In Poetry, Second Place Winner\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2020\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCoocoo is a young immigrant woman in Toronto. Her faith is worn threadbare after years of bargaining with God to end her loneliness and receiving no answer. Then she meets her mirror-image; Muhammad is a professor and father of two. He's also married. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeartbreaking and hilarious, this verse-novel chronicles Coocoo's spiraling descent: the transformation of her love into something at first desperate and obsessive, then finally cringing and animal, utterly without grace. Her best friend, Nouf, remains by her side throughout, and together they face the growing contradictions of Coocoo's life. What does it mean to pray while giving your body to a man who cannot keep it? How long can a homeless love survive on the streets? These are some of the questions this verse-novel swishes around in its mouth.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51166519099680,"sku":"9780771005893","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0836\/3661\/7504\/files\/9780771005893.jpg?v=1769717479","url":"https:\/\/creativebysanchez.com\/products\/washes-prays","provider":"Creative By Sanchez","version":"1.0","type":"link"}