{"product_id":"archipelago-9781963108309","title":"Archipelago","description":"Along the way to a translation writing residency on the Dalmatian coast, Archipelago's unnamed narrator has an unsettling, aggressive encounter with a man on a ferry, which sets off a series of strange events. At the residency, she reunites with Luka, an old friend who seems to have included a version of her in his novel. They strike up a romantic relationship as she continues her translation work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The hazy summer stretches on until, after a sudden shift, she embarks upon an impulsive road trip back to Greece, crossing borders. Spare and lyrical, with subversions of the \u003cem\u003eOdyssey\u003c\/em\u003e and its singular Ithaca, \u003cem\u003eArchipelago\u003c\/em\u003e charts a wending journey back to the narrator's family house--not simply back to a self and home, but beyond it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatalie Bakopoulos\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eScorpionfish\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Green Shore\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in \u003ci\u003ePloughshares\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNinth Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVQR\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGlimmer Train\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMQR\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, and various other publications. She received her MFA from the University of Michigan, has received fellowships from the Camargo and MacDowell foundations and the Sozopol Fiction Seminars, and was a 2015 Fulbright Fellow in Athens, Greece. She's an assistant professor at Wayne State University in Detroit. Her book reviews have regularly appeared in the \u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e, and she's a contributing editor to \u003ci\u003eFiction Writers Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She's on the faculty of Writing Workshops in Greece.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51807270240530,"sku":"9781963108309","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_98dbf2ac-6719-4e89-8ac2-59c0cee6723e.jpg?v=1766049063","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/archipelago-9781963108309","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}