{"product_id":"ruins-child","title":"Ruins, Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, Giada Scodellaro's debut novel may recall Virginia Woolf's \u003cem\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/em\u003e, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast (often vernacular, often overheard: 'The woman is old, I hear children saying nearby, not in the way we consider all adults to be old, but really old, ancient, she is endless'). It's a book which seems to be drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: her female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalisation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e'Looseness, that is the thing people fear in a person (in women) and in objects.'\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e Ruins, Child \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003euses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography, and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Giada Scodellaro is one of the most astonishing writers of her generation and\u003cem\u003e Ruins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e is a visionary novel. Scodellaro refracts and redefines the canon of Black culture, the archive of Black experience. The result is a masterpiece that lives and breathes on the page, every sentence shimmering with wit, musicality, brilliance and verve.'\u003c\/strong\u003e Katie Kitamura\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eSome of Them Will Carry Me\u003c\/em\u003e:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'The female protagonists who appear in Scodellaro's kinetic debut collection of stories find themselves in absurdist and fantastical scenarios that interrogate the nature of subjectivity.'\u003c\/strong\u003e The New Yorker, 'Best Books of 2022'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Scodellaro's stories capture a broad spectrum of life's joy, disgust, complexity, and unusual specificity.'\u003c\/strong\u003e Booklist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'A wild and wonderful collection...auspicious and consistently surprising.'\u003c\/strong\u003e Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giada Scodellaro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53070425620759,"sku":"9781923106581","price":32.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0818\/9132\/8279\/files\/9781923106581.jpg?v=1778227475","url":"https:\/\/amplifybookstore.com\/products\/ruins-child","provider":"Amplify Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}