{"product_id":"we-are-chimera","title":"We Are Chimera","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003eWatch the \u003cstrong\u003ebook trailer\u003c\/strong\u003e for \u003cem\u003eWe Are Chimera\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaura Sobbott Ross\u003c\/strong\u003e has worked as a teacher and a writing coach for Lake County Schools in Central Florida and was named Lake County’s inaugural poet laureate. Her poems have been featured on \u003ci\u003eVerse Daily\u003c\/i\u003e and have appeared in \u003ci\u003eMeridian, 32 Poems, Blackbird, Florida Review,\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. She was a finalist for the Art \u0026amp; Letters Poetry Prize and won the Southern Humanities Auburn Witness Poetry Prize. She is the author of six poetry books.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify; mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"...women carry at least three unique cell populations in their bodies— their own, their mother's, and their child's— creating what biologists term a microchimera...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman';\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e     —Katharine Rowland\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe Are Chimera is a journey that threads mother to daughter to daughter. Beyond the elemental confines of cells and marrow, the “sticky web of …veins,” a daughter struggles, and a mother grieves. It is a place where “peonies un-mirth in pink and collapse,” where turtles become an unlikely spirit animal, and ultrasounds are read like tealeaves. As the daughter falters and drifts “like a kite, a satellite, a comet, fevered and orbiting,” the mother doesn’t let go. A baby girl arrives to amaryllis blooms and the winter solstice moon. Her “first breath, an altar” where culture, race, and hope tenderly merge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback: 52 pages\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Kelsay Books (June 24, 2025)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kelsay Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47026016420039,"sku":"sqk1787286962728","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0702\/7923\/3735\/files\/we-are-chimera_1.jpg?v=1787286968","url":"https:\/\/nextstylefashion.shop\/products\/we-are-chimera","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}