Curb

By Divya Victor

Book Overview

Winner of the 2022 PEN Open Book Award!

Winner of the 2022 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award!

Finalist for the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Awards in Poetry!

Curb maps our post-9/11 political landscape by locating the wounds of domestic terrorism at unacknowledged sites of racial and religious conflict across cities and suburbs of the United States.

Divya Victor documents how immigrants and Americans navigate the liminal sites of everyday living: lawns, curbs, and sidewalks, undergirded by violence but also constantly repaved with new possibilities of belonging. Curb witnesses immigrant survival, familial bonds, and interracial parenting in the context of nationalist and white-supremacist violence against South Asians. The book refutes the binary of the model minority and the monstrous, dark "other" by reclaiming the throbbing, many-tongued, vermillion heart of kith.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1643620703
• ISBN13: 9781643620701
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Nightboat Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 7.9"