{"product_id":"stepmother","title":"Stepmother","description":"\u003ci\u003e'Euripides said \"better a serpent than a stepmother.\" For a moment, you like the idea of being a single line, winding around everything you touch. A vine.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e'\u003cb\u003eBrave, graceful and absolutely vital - Mort shoulders away the old trope of the stepmother and replaces her with a host of humane women\u003c\/b\u003e' SARAH HALL, author of \u003ci\u003eHelm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen a new relationship casts poet Helen Mort in the role of stepmother, she embarks on a personal quest for understanding; moving across verse and personal essay, from fairytale to modern blended family.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTurning a bold and inventive gaze on this neglected dimension of female experience, these are candid dispatches from the shifting terrain of the modern family. As playful as it is moving, \u003ci\u003eSTEPMOTHER\u003c\/i\u003e radiates Mort’s signature empathetic warmth, but with the bite of truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMort interleaves ravishing fragments of lyric essay with gothic flights into verse that draw us deep into the woods of \u003ci\u003eupon-a-time\u003c\/i\u003e, and back, changed, into the now. Groundbreaking and transformative, tender and uncompromising, \u003ci\u003eSTEPMOTHER \u003c\/i\u003ehas much to teach us about female power and the fear it still provokes, our openness to change, and the surprising shapes love can take.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I was enchanted by her blend of generous lyric and furious cultural critique. A spell for seeing differently’ \u003c\/b\u003eCLARE POLLARD, author of THE MODERN FAIRIES\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Helen Mort","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":52586545283288,"sku":"9781784746445","price":27.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2770\/5320\/files\/cover-9781784746445.jpg?v=1790710501","url":"https:\/\/destiil.com\/fr\/products\/stepmother","provider":"De Stiil Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}