{"product_id":"9781913867768","title":"Tidal Waters by Vidal, Velia","description":"Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003eFiction in translation\u003cbr\u003e9781913867768\u003cbr\u003eAn epistolary, fictional account of one woman moving towards happiness in the black community of Colombia’s Pacific coast.   After a long absence, Vel has come home to Chocó – to the Afro-Colombian community, to her family, to the sea. This is where the Pacific meets the Caribbean, where she’s establishing herself anew. And the record she keeps is a series of letters to a friend, clarifying for herself where she stands, as she describes that homecoming to another. Vel works to build a literary centre, writing career, and festival with and for the people there. But her return to Chocó is also a claim-staking of her decision to pursue happiness now; an account of her immersion in the towns and rivers and forests she came from; and a redefinition of her relationship to sex and love in real time. And Tidal Waters is a vision of how creating something (for your community, for yourself) is a way of reading and writing your way into a known place and a new self.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"The Book Elephant","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50734433173837,"sku":"9781913867768","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0829\/0808\/6605\/files\/9781913867768.jpg?v=1734633953","url":"https:\/\/thebookelephant.co.uk\/products\/9781913867768","provider":"The Book Elephant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}