{"id":15,"date":"2012-01-28T13:02:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-28T13:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/?p=15"},"modified":"2012-05-22T21:34:54","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T21:34:54","slug":"we-the-animals-by-justin-torres-granta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/?p=15","title":{"rendered":"We the Animals by Justin Torres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/torres1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-447\" title=\"torres\" src=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/torres1-183x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"183\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/torres1-183x300.jpg 183w, http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/torres1-627x1024.jpg 627w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 183px) 100vw, 183px\" \/><\/a><\/em><strong>Published by Granta 1 March 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>144pp hardback \u00a312.99<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>We the Animals <\/em>by <a title=\"Justin Torres\" href=\"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/?p=54\">Justin Torres\u00a0<\/a>. This powerful and poetic debut depicts &#8211; with remarkable freshness &#8211; scenes from the life of three wild sons, the offspring of a poor mixed-race family in upstate New York. Torres\u2019s short novel explores passion, violence, mystery and tenderness within the rackety household where the unity of the children is splintered by the specialness of one of them. Some books develop a unique language or stylistic rhythm to create their own world. This, memorably, is one of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Published by Granta 1 March 2012 144pp hardback \u00a312.99 We the Animals by Justin Torres\u00a0. This powerful and poetic debut depicts &#8211; with remarkable freshness &#8211; scenes from the life of three wild sons, the offspring of a poor mixed-race family in upstate New York. Torres\u2019s short novel explores passion, violence, mystery and tenderness within [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19,17,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-fiction-and-non-fiction","category-notable-books","category-reviews","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bookoxygen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}