{"product_id":"absence-9781953387998","title":"Absence","description":"\u003cb\u003eHaunting and atmospheric, Issa Quincy's \u003ci\u003eAbsence\u003c\/i\u003e is an indelible nesting doll of human impression and memory.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a child, an unnamed narrator's mother reads to him a poem. Throughout his life, the poem reappears mysteriously, in the affecting life experiences of others as they are recounted to him. An eccentric and beloved schoolteacher leaves behind a dark secret after his death. An elderly woman returns to the same hotel on the Tunisian coast every year as an act of remembrance for a disappeared brother. The son of a wealthy Indian businessman, the pariah of his family, finds solidarity and the distant pang of freedom within the letters of an estranged Aunt. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs we follow characters on their journeys of self-discovery through the jungle of Thailand, as a child in the British countryside, or as an aging doctor on the island of Cyprus, \u003ci\u003eAbsence \u003c\/i\u003eevocatively builds a compassionate symphony of nostalgia, attuned to the drama of everyday and the phantoms that linger with us. Issa Quincy has constructed a transcendent portrait of humanity, deftly illuminating those memories that forever bind us to one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIssa Quincy\u003c\/b\u003e is a British writer. He spent several years working as a film archivist. His poetry has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe London Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and been anthologised by New Rivers Press. His fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eTransition Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review. Absence \u003c\/i\u003eis his first novel. He is currently based in New York City.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51454107844882,"sku":"9781953387998","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_eb8cbe62-165a-4fe9-8473-c6c8cd9904b2.jpg?v=1765371590","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/absence-9781953387998","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}