{"product_id":"ive-been-meaning-to-tell-you","title":"I've Been Meaning To Tell You","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the tradition of Ta-Nehisi Coates'sÊBetween the WorldÊand Me, acclaimed novelist David Chariandy's latest is an intimate and profoundly beautiful meditation on the politics of race today\u003cbr\u003e\nWhen a moment of quietly ignored bigotry prompted his three-year-old daughter to ask 'what happened?', David Chariandy began wondering how to discuss with his children the politics of race. Today, in a newly heated era of struggle and divisions, he has completed a letter to his now thirteen-year-old daughter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe son of Black and South Asian migrants from Trinidad, David draws upon his personal and ancestral past, including his experiences growing up as a 'visible minority' within the land of his birth, as well as the legacies of slavery, indenture and immigration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn sharing with his daughter his own story of 'race', he hopes to cultivate within her a sense of identity that balances the painful truths of the past and present with hopeful possibilities for a better future. With intimacy, sensitivity and beauty, Chariandy shares the questions he is addressing to his daughter Ð questions of immense importance and resonance for us all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ÊDavid Chariandy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49013913747609,"sku":"9781526602879","price":990.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/5642\/6905\/files\/i-ve-been-meaning-to-tell-you_7b95ea9a-176f-4250-9f45-e1f013cb7862.jpg?v=1789229157","url":"https:\/\/booksworldstore.com\/products\/ive-been-meaning-to-tell-you","provider":"Books World","version":"1.0","type":"link"}