{"product_id":"alphabet-soup","title":"Alphabet Soup","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Alphabet Soup\" collects the sayings of two multilingual girls as written down by their poet father. As their Turkish-German-Russian-American family moves from New York to Berlin, the girls communicate in a witty and colorful language of their own, effortlessly mixing words of different origin. Does who we are determine the way we speak — or is it the other way around? Alphabet Soup shows us the girls’ language as it changes, letting us witness their metamorphoses from toddlers to teenagers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith an essay and poems by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA co-publication with Rab-Rab Press (Helsinki).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePRAISE:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A marvelous book! Language is itself a poet: this is something that children know (as do some poets).” Yoko Tawada, author of \"Exophony: Voyages Outside the Mother Tongue.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A delightful collection of mixed-language creations that will resonate with parents raising bilingual kids.” Aneta Pavlenko, author of \"The Bilingual Mind: And What it Tells Us about Language and Thought.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Asterism","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47890621005981,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0671\/8783\/5037\/files\/alphabetsoup.png?v=1777763974","url":"https:\/\/postcardbookshop.com\/products\/alphabet-soup","provider":"Postcard Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}