{"product_id":"breaking-points","title":"Breaking Points","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eBreaking Points\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eChelsea Stickle\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781625570192\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBlack Lawrence Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiction. LGBTQIA Studies. Women's Studies. In thirteen slick; innovative; and gut-wrenching flashes; the young women and girls in BREAKING POINTS; the debut chapbook from Chelsea Stickle; hit the walls around them--walls constructed by family; friends; significant others; and insidious cultural perils. Stranger danger doesn't disappear when you start wearing a push-up bra; notes one of Stickle's pre-teen narrators when confronted by a leering threat that will forever sever her path from that of her best friend. In How to Make Stock with Thanksgiving Leftovers; a queer young woman takes us through a wry recipe for boiling turkey stock and raging against small-minded relatives and the traumas they inflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWritten in the style of a classic glossy magazine personality quiz; How Mature Are You?: A Quiz provides whip-smart A; B; C responses to situations such as: When that bitch in your book club calls you a space cadet then furnishes the reader with irreverent; pull-no-punches results. This is a collection as darkly humorous as it is heartbreaking and disquieting. Within Stickle's thirteen walled worlds; some will break; some adapt; and others soar. Pushed to the breaking point; none escape unscathed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Breaking Points | Chelsea Stickle | Quality | 9781625570192 | New | Fiction 1281940","offer_id":50550605021442,"sku":"1281940","price":26.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/01RmK_J4pJL_bd913e6a-3da7-4ea5-8216-1a28752f6e02.gif?v=1790469997","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/breaking-points","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}