{"product_id":"9781764555869","title":"Abakada","description":"\u003cb\u003e‘Every few years, since legal adulthood, I’d moved cities or countries. I wondered if this was an adaptive response to colonialism and diaspora, encoded in my miscegenated, globally interwoven DNA. Or maybe I had cultural ADHD. Or maybe, you know, commitment issues.’\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLara Day remembers the exact moment she stopped speaking Tagalog, her Filipino mother tongue, because her English father couldn’t understand her. From this moment of loss, Abakada takes a spiralling journey across decades and continents, as Lara grows up in colonial Hong Kong to endure chronic fatigue in the UK, a coup in Thailand, a pandemic in Australia – and terrible boyfriends in more than one country.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold alphabetically, Abakada sifts through the pieces of life with humour and insight, weaving together themes of family, voice and lineage, to find a language all of its own.","brand":"Simon and Schuster","offers":[{"title":"eBook","offer_id":59873516585246,"sku":"9781764555869","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0741\/8436\/0222\/files\/9781764555869.jpg?v=1788271008","url":"https:\/\/shop.simonandschuster.com\/products\/9781764555869","provider":"Simon and Schuster","version":"1.0","type":"link"}