{"product_id":"poppy-state-a-labyrinth-of-plants-and-a-story-of-beginnings-hardcover","title":"Poppy State: A Labyrinth of Plants and a Story of Beginnings - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMyriam Gurba\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eCreep\u003c\/i\u003e comes a powerful book by a writer at the peak of her powers--at once a love letter to California and a literary tour de force that tells the story of resilience and reclamation through a relationship with plants, memory, myth, and indigenous knowledge.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Myriam Gurba has lived in California her entire life, with its plants and soils, forests and ecology, immersing herself in the language of the landscape as refracted through the languages and memories of her ancestors. In \u003ci\u003ePoppy State, \u003c\/i\u003e California plants serve as structural anchors in a wildly inventive work of narrative nonfiction that is part botanical criticism, part personal storytelling, and part study of place. The reader is invited to commune with California with Gurba as their guide, ushered through a compendium of anecdotes, reminiscences, utterances, lists, incantations, newspaper articles, and other ephemera. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Through the stories of these plants she comes to a new understanding of what occurs in the cultivation of a soul. Gurba learns if she can care for her body as she does her plants, her soul can thrive--like the California poppy on her kitchen windowsill. And through walks in the Angeles National Forest, she visits oaks, crows, elderberries, and sycamores, while foraging for acorns, flowers, and berries to adorn her altar at home. \u003ci\u003ePoppy State\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting tour de force. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The mother of intersectional Latinx identity.\" --\u003ci\u003eCosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Scorchingly good.\"--Cheryl Strayed \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The most fearless writer in America.\" --Luis Alberto Urrea, Pulitzer Prize finalist \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A truly distinctive, authentic, and dynamic literary voice. . . Myriam Gurba is one of our great American intellectuals.\" --\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMyriam Gurba\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books, including Dahlia Season (2007) which won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction, Painting their Portraits in Winter (2015; Mean (2017), a true crime memoir that was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Nonfiction, the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction, and the PEN America Award for Creative Nonfiction; and Creep: Accusations and Confessions, her first essay collection, which includes her viral essay, \"Pendeja, You Ain't Steinbeck: My Bronca with Fake Ass Social Justice Literature,\" and was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism. Gurba's writing has been widely anthologized and has also appeared in publications such as the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Harper's Bazaar, Believer, Paris Review, and TIME. She is also a teacher, editor, anti-rape activist, public speaker, practitioner of plant-based magic, and a co-founder of Dignidad Literaria, a grassroots organization that combats white supremacy in the publishing industry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 256\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.95 x 8.5 x 5.87 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51984069787949,"sku":"9781643265148","price":27.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/L3VpgjXOX9781643265148.webp?v=1776081738","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/poppy-state-a-labyrinth-of-plants-and-a-story-of-beginnings-hardcover","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}