{"product_id":"love-the-dark-days","title":"Love the Dark Days","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom award-winning journalist Ira Mathur, \u003cem\u003eLove The Dark Days\u003c\/em\u003e is about accrued intergenerational damage between mothers and daughters in post-colonial worlds.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSet in India, England, Trinidad and St Lucia, \u003cem\u003eLove The Dark Days\u003c\/em\u003e follows the story of the life of Dolly, of mixed Hindu Muslim parentage in post-colonial India. Dolly, whose privileged family has colluded with the brutality of the British Rule in India, lives with her grandmother, who feels a raging loss at the fading old world. With it, her privilege. Dolly absorbs her grandmothers' rage, becoming a living memorial of all the pain and injustice the imperious Burrimummy repeatedly hauls back from her past to tell and retell to Dolly. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJust as Dolly is constantly pulled into the old wounds, so is the reader. The story is crafted so the reader viscerally experiences how trauma loops around, coming back and back through generations to warp the future.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThat damage of unbelonging is repeated when her family migrates to Trinidad, where, in her darkest hour, she meets Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, who encourages her when she visits him in St Lucia over a weekend to leave the past behind and reinvent herself. Before she can do this Dolly must re-enter the past one last time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCan Dolly find the courage to examine each broken shard of her shattered family and reassemble it into a new shape in a new world? It is raw, unflinching, but not without threads of humour and perceived absurdity; \u003cem\u003eLove the Dark Days\u003c\/em\u003e is an intricate tapestry with Dolly's story at its heart.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ira Mathur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43404942868737,"sku":"9781845235352","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-378.png?v=1701881613","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/love-the-dark-days","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}