{"product_id":"again-before-i-forget","title":"Again, Before I Forget","description":"\u003cp\u003eHe wrote because he did not want to forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt five, Renley Nicolas Chu survived the fire that took his parents and his voice. At eight, he was adopted into a home that became, over the next decade, the site of his abuse and trafficking. At seventeen, in stolen hours between hospital wards and safe houses, he began to write-pouring his memories into jars he could carry, before time and other people's cruelty could empty them out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe died three days before he was meant to come home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAgain, Before I Forget gathers the prose, poems, and letters Renley wrote in the final year of his life, edited and framed by his almost-adoptive mother, Tiffany Chu. The book moves from fire and forgetting through entrapment, dissociation, and survival toward something Ren had nearly stopped believing was possible: to be fully known, and fully loved. Tiffany's quiet introductions hold the context; the writing itself is entirely his.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat remains is not a record of what was done to him, but a testament to who he was-a boy who could not speak, and who refused, even at the end, to go unheard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an uncorrected proof for review purposes, subject to change.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Glass Bottle Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53018005045568,"sku":"9798993753164","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/8912\/3648\/files\/imageloader_f84a848f-8923-426c-a804-7c5841aa4a5e.jpg?v=1786546999","url":"https:\/\/silverstreetbooks.com\/products\/again-before-i-forget","provider":"silverstreetbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}