{"product_id":"eating-ashes","title":"Eating Ashes","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated by Megan McDowell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Stunning... An energetic and harrowing new voice.' \u003c\/strong\u003eMiriam Toews, author of \u003cem\u003eAll My Puny Sorrows\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA young man jumps five floors to his death. His sister tries to understand why. A searing novel about abandonment, belonging and migration, from an exciting new Latin American voice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFive floors, six seconds, a body crashing to the ground. When our narrator's younger brother, Diego, takes his own life, she retreats into memories of the past, asking herself again and again- why? Revisiting their early years in Mexico, their childhood in Spain and the fragmentation and displacement that coloured their adult years, she pieces together a story of alienation and loss, but also of belonging, courage and hope.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow, she has to return to Mexico with Diego's ashes in hand. She finds a country that looks very different from the one she left behind and asks what it means to return to a home that never felt like one.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEating Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a tender, deeply poignant novel, shot through with flashes of dark humour, from a powerful new Latin American voice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brenda Navarro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53409019429143,"sku":"9781836430193","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/9132\/8279\/files\/eating-ashes.jpg?v=1779419145","url":"https:\/\/amplifybookstore.com\/products\/eating-ashes","provider":"Amplify Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}