{"product_id":"unraveling-threads-essays-on-inheritance-paperback","title":"Unraveling Threads: Essays on Inheritance - Paperback","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\u003eBrenda Lin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir-in-essays that, in its exploration of language, family ties, and Taiwanese history, distills how the handmade holds memory, inheritance, and the work of caretaking.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Tactile memory feels like it is the easiest to lose,\" brenda Lin writes in \u003ci\u003eUnraveling Threads. \u003c\/i\u003eBut in these exquisite essays, she demonstrates just how the tactile bolsters personal, familial, and cultural memory. From the remnant of a baby's umbilical cord to the antique hand-embroidered baby carriers her mother collects, Lin shows us how the tactile and handmade connect parents and children, homeland and diaspora, and give texture to caregiving's many forms. As Lin writes, the radical for \u003ci\u003ethread\u003c\/i\u003e forms the basis of Chinese characters for women's work, for practice through repetition, for inheritance. Threads form the mesh in the stent that keeps her father's heart working. And \u003ci\u003eyuan, \u003c\/i\u003e the red thread of fate, is the first word she translated for her future husband. When Lin returns to Taiwan after decades away, this time with her young family, the threads of creativity and caretaking become the warp and weft of the continual process of homecoming. These essays on motherhood, language, art, and diaspora will resonate with anyone who has experienced the process of returning to, or building, a home.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ebrenda Lin is a writer, literary translator, and educator based in Taipei, Taiwan. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eWealth Ribbon: Taiwan Bound, America Bound\u003c\/i\u003e. Her writing and translations have appeared in \u003ci\u003eFourth Genre\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAsymptote, Gulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Kenyon Review, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.48 x 8.5 x 5.5 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 August 12, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45572481581191,"sku":"9780814259887","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/ct48LOQAHO9780814259887.webp?v=1787136614","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/unraveling-threads-essays-on-inheritance-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}