{"product_id":"brother-sister-mother-explorer-9781948226882","title":"Brother, Sister, Mother, Explorer","description":"\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA fableistic, \"beautifully crafted, poetic\" debut novel of enormous power and grace about a sister trying to hold back her brother from the edge of the abyss for readers of Jesmyn Ward and Tommy Orange (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the tourist town of Ciudad de Tres Hermanas, in the aftermath of their mother's passing, two siblings spend a final weekend together in their childhood home. Seeing her brother, Rafa, careening toward a place of no return, Rufina devises a bet: if they can make enough money performing for privileged tourists in the plaza over the course of the weekend to afford a plane ticket out, Rafa must commit to living. If not, Rufina will make her peace with Rafa's own plan for the future, however terrifying it may be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the siblings reckon with generational and ancestral trauma, set against the indignities of present-day prejudice, other strange hauntings begin to stalk these pages: their mother's ghost kicks her heels against the walls; Rufina's vanished child creeps into her arms at night; and above all this, watching over the siblings, a genderless, flea-bitten angel remains hell-bent on saving what can be saved.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJamie Figueroa\u003c\/b\u003e received her MFA in creative writing from the Institute of American Indian Arts. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eEpoch\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAmerican Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of the Truman Capote Scholarship and is a Bread Loaf scholar. Boricua by way of Ohio, Figueroa lives in northern New Mexico.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50441396715794,"sku":"9781948226882","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f8f4f22f-b4cd-4390-a0c8-2935572dba67.jpg?v=1729665466","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/brother-sister-mother-explorer-9781948226882","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}