{"product_id":"asl-9781641297974","title":"A\/S\/L","description":"\u003cb\u003eA transformational, transformative story about video games, three queer friends, and the code(s) they learn to survive, from the winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Trans Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1998: Lilith, Sash, and Abraxa are teenagers, scattered across the country but joined by the Internet as they \u003ci\u003ecreate Saga of the Sorceress\u003c\/i\u003e, a video game that will change everything, if only for the three of them. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEighteen years later, \u003ci\u003eSaga of the Sorceress\u003c\/i\u003e still exists only on the scattered drives of its creators. Lilith works as a loan underwriter at a rinky-dink bank in Manhattan, a trans woman in a very cis world. Sash is in Brooklyn, working as a part-time webcam dominatrix. Neither knows that the other is in New York, or that Abraxa is just across the Hudson River, sleeping on the floor of a friend's Jersey City home after a disaster at sea. They have never met in person and have been out of touch for years, but none have forgotten the sorceress or her unfinished quest. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWeaving together the technologies of two decades, and a healthy dose of magic, \u003ci\u003eA\/S\/L\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that queers our notions of nostalgia, friendship, and even the possibilities of fiction itself, confirming Jeanne Thornton as one of our best and most ambitious novelists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeanne Thornton \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eSummer Fun\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Fiction and finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, as well as \u003ci\u003eThe Black Emerald \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Dream of Doctor Bantam\u003c\/i\u003e. Her fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003en+1\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWIRED\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEvergreen Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and other places. She is an editor at Feminist Press, as well as copublisher of Instar Books and coeditor of the Ignatz Award-winning \u003ci\u003eWe're Still Here: An All-Trans Comics Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn, and more information is available at jeannethornton.com.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Soho Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52057775276306,"sku":"9781641297974","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_83ad888f-658c-497e-aafd-88fd6f474e67.jpg?v=1772006544","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/asl-9781641297974","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}