{"product_id":"bxosps-dds-umbrella-9781911284949","title":"DD's Umbrella","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eWhat was it they were battling? Their smallness, of course, their smallness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ed, a nonbinary gig worker living in Seoul, briefly escapes the grasp of isolation when they meet dd, only to be ensnared by grief when dd dies in a car accident. Meanwhile, the world around them reckons with the 2014 Sewol ferry disaster that left more than 300 dead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs formally inventive as it is evocative, dd’s Umbrella is composed of twin novellas. The first is told from the perspective of d, and the second from the perspective of a writer researching a book they may never write. Both figures dwell in society’s margins––queer, working-class, and part of nontraditional family structures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs people across Korea come together to protest the government’s handling of the Sewol ferry disaster, and to impeach the right-wing president in office, the novel examines how progressive movements coexist with social exclusion, particularly of women and sexual minorities, invisibilised in service of the ‘greater cause’.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003edd’s Umbrella is a meditative and off-centre novel about mourning and revolution.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tilted Axis Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68418825027826,"sku":"9781911284949","price":22.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781911284949_a.png?v=1793776120","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/bxosps-dds-umbrella-9781911284949","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}