{"product_id":"where-did-you-sleep-last-night-a-personal-history","title":"Where Did You Sleep Last Night?: A Personal History","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Danzy Sennas parents got married in 1968  they seemed poised to defy history. They were two brilliant young American writers from wildly divergent backgroundsa white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man  the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father. They married in a year that seemed to separate the past from the present; together  these two would snub the histories that divided them and embrace a radical future. When their marriage disintegrated eight years later  it was  as one friend put it  the ugliest divorce in Bostons historya violent  traumatic war that felt all the more heartrending given the hopeful symbolism of their union. Decades later  Senna looks back not only at her parents divorce but beyond it  to the opposing American histories that her parents had tried so hard to overcome. On her mothers side of the family she findsin carefully preserved documentsthe chronicle of a white America both illustrious and shameful. On her fathers she discovers  through fragments and shreds of evidence  a no less remarkable history. As she digs deeper into this unwritten half of the story  she reconstructs a longburied family mystery that illuminates her own childhood. In the process  she begins to understand her difficult father  the power and failure of her parents union  and  finally  the forces of history. Where Did You Sleep Last Night? is at once a potent statement of personal identity  a challenging look at the murky waters of American ancestry  and an exploration of narrativesthe narratives we create and those we forget. Senna has given us an unforgettable testimony to the paradoxesthe pain and the prideembedded in history  family  and race.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44966573211701,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374289158","price":89.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374289157.jpg?v=1770569158","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/where-did-you-sleep-last-night-a-personal-history","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}