{"product_id":"a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return","title":"A Map to the Door of No Return","description":"Now in its first American edition, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of “being” in the Black Diaspora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince its first publication in 2001, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking exploration of being in the Black Diaspora, A Map to the Door of No Return, has emerged as a modern classic. The door, in Brand’s iconic schema, represents the point of rupture where the ancestors of the Black Diaspora departed one world for another: the place where all names were forgotten, and all beginnings recast. “This door,” writes Brand, “is not mere physicality. It is a spiritual location . . . Since leaving was never voluntary, return was, and still may be, an intention, however deeply buried. There is as it says no way in; no return.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough shards of history, memoir, lyrical investigation, and the unwritten experience of so many descendants of those who passed through the door, Brand constructs a map of this indelible region, culminating in an enduring expression, both definitive and seeking, of what it is to live, think, and create in the wake of colonization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith a new preface by the author, and an afterword by Saidiya Hartman.","brand":"Macmillan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47842507522274,"sku":"MTO-MACMILLAN-2026-05-29-8.55-623","price":31.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/9898\/5881\/files\/book_138_MGoy7QLoG.jpg?v=1780134108","url":"https:\/\/layitflat.com\/products\/a-map-to-the-door-of-no-return","provider":"Lay it Flat Publishing Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}