{"title":"Costa Rican Authors","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"saints-of-the-household-ari-tison-bargain","title":"Saints of the Household - Ari Tison (Bargain)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSaints of the Household\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis a haunting contemporary YA about an act of violence in a small-town--told by a debut Indigenous Costa Rican-American writer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMax and Jay have always depended on one another for their survival. Growing up with a physically abusive father, the two Bribri American brothers have learned that the only way to protect themselves and their mother is to stick to a schedule and keep their heads down.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut when they hear a classmate in trouble in the woods, instinct takes over and they intervene, breaking up a fight and beating their high school's star soccer player to a pulp. This act of violence threatens the brothers' dreams for the future and their beliefs about who they are. As the true details of that fateful afternoon unfold over the course of the novel, Max and Jay grapple with the weight of their actions, their shifting relationship as brothers, and the realization that they may be more like their father than they thought. They'll have to reach back to their Bribri roots to find their way forward.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTold in alternating points of view using vignettes and poems.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAri Tison\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Bribri American poet, essayist, and autoethnographer. She is the author of the young adult hybrid novel \u003cem\u003eSaints of the Household\u003c\/em\u003e (Farrar, Straus \u0026amp; Giroux, 2023). She belongs to the Bribri people, an Indigenous tribe of Costa Rica.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Archive","offers":[{"title":"Bargain - Hardcover","offer_id":51529931030845,"sku":null,"price":11.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0709\/0831\/3917\/files\/81MzoRWGoML._SL1500.jpg?v=1710020855"}],"url":"https:\/\/thebookarchive.ca\/collections\/costa-rican-authors.oembed","provider":"The Book Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}