{"product_id":"a-feather-on-the-breath-of-god-9781250816238","title":"A Feather on the Breath of God","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Friend, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eA Feather on the Breath of God\u003c\/i\u003e, is a mesmerizing story about the tangled nature of relationships between parents and children, between language and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith a new introduction by Susan Choi, the National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eTrust Exercises\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA young woman looks back to the world of her immigrant parents: a Chinese Panamanian father and a German mother. Growing up in a housing project in the 1950s and 1960s, she escapes into dreams inspired both by her parents' stories and by her own reading and, for a time, into the otherworldly life of ballet. A yearning homesick mother, a silent and withdrawn father, the ballet--these are the elements that shape the young woman's imagination and her sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSigrid Nunez\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Friend\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the 2018 National Book Award, and of several other novels, including \u003ci\u003eWhat Are You Going Through\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Last of Her Kind\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eSempre Susan: A Memoir of Susan Sontag\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been translated into more than twenty-five languages. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Choi\u003c\/b\u003e's first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Foreign Student\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Asian-American Literary Award for fiction. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize. Her third novel, \u003ci\u003eA Person of Interest\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the 2009 PEN\/Faulkner Award. In 2010 she was named the inaugural recipient of the PEN\/W.G. Sebald Award. Her fourth novel, \u003ci\u003eMy Education\u003c\/i\u003e, received a 2014 Lammy Award. Her fifth novel, \u003ci\u003eTrust Exercise\u003c\/i\u003e, won the 2019 National Book Award for Fiction. Her first book for children, \u003ci\u003e Camp Tiger\u003c\/i\u003e, was also published in 2019. A recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation, she teaches fiction writing at Yale and lives in Brooklyn.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615003545874,"sku":"9781250816238","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_34aade30-e6e1-4a49-8cf2-845334da47dc.jpg?v=1732471570","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-feather-on-the-breath-of-god-9781250816238","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}