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    Boiled Owls
    Boiled Owls
    Boiled Owls
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    Boiled Owls

    By Azad Sharma

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    • Author is the Director of the87press and also a PhD candidate in English and Humanities at Birkbeck College, University of London. 
    •  Sharma grew up amidst a deeply political family, including an anti-apartheid revolutionary exiled to the UK, a high-ranking politician in Indian Congress, and several generations’ worth of antiracist organizers. 
    • Boiled Owls was written during Sharma’s “third attempt” at long-term sobriety out of a desire to cast addiction as an everyday issue and not something to be chastised, or, in the case of recovery, lionized. The book thinks within and against addiction narratives. 
    • Of addiction, Sharma writes: “One of the things I’ve learned is that addiction is the internalization of capitalism and thus addiction might have something to teach us about a recovery from capitalism and the generation of a fairer and more just society.” 
    • Sharma has received accolades for his books of poetry, including the Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Book Award 2023.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNightboat Books
    Release dateApr 2, 2024
    ISBN9781643622576
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