{"product_id":"lessons-in-love-and-other-crimes-9781911648222","title":"Lessons in Love and Other Crimes","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn innovative hybrid of auto-fiction, crime fiction and critical race memoir, this multi-layered yet compulsively readable novel is inspired by the author s real and extended experience of serious racial harassment, as well as exploring her search for justice and for love\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Tesya has reasons to feel hopeful after leaving her last job, where she was subjected to a series of anonymous hate crimes. Now she is back home in London to start a new lecturing position, and has begun an exciting, if tumultuous, love affair with the enigmatic Holly. But this idyllic new start quickly sours. Tesya finds herself victimized again at work by an unknown assailant, who subjects her to an insidious, sustained race hate crime. As her paranoia mounts, Tesya finds herself yearning for the most elemental of desires: love, acceptance, and sanctuary. Her assailant, meanwhile, is recording his manifesto and plotting his next steps. Inspired by the author's personal experiences of hate crime and bookended with essays which contextualize the story within a lifetime of microaggressions, \u003ci\u003eLessons in Love and Other Crimes\u003c\/i\u003e is a heartbreaking, hopeful, and compulsively readable novel about the most quotidian of crimes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-14334914\"\u003eElizabeth Chakrabarty\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Indigo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.48lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911648222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1911648225\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC043000\"\u003eComing of Age\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Chakrabarty\u003c\/b\u003e is an interdisciplinary artist who uses creative and critical writing, besides performance, to explore themes of race, gender, and sexuality. Her story \"Eurovision\" was short-listed for the Asian Writer Short Story Prize and published in \u003ci\u003eDividing Lines\u003c\/i\u003e (Dahlia Publishing, 2017). She is a contributor to a new anthology edited by Kirsty Gunn, \u003ci\u003eImagined Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indigo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696716058861,"sku":"9781911648222","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_a72b6ef5-6445-4a55-ac3d-221d9c4d8a4d.jpg?v=1649882843","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/lessons-in-love-and-other-crimes-9781911648222","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}