{"product_id":"face-a-novel-of-the-anthropocene-9781927366974","title":"Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn his playful yet deeply serious third novel Jaspreet Singh links a fossil fraud in India, an ice core archive in Canada, and a climate change laboratory in Germany.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJaspreet Singh's much anticipated third novel traces a past crime that suddenly becomes confrontable on another continent. Lila, a brilliant Indian-born science journalist, and Lucia, an aspiring European-born writer, meet at a creative writing workshop in Calgary. Both try to use fiction to work through real-life trauma, but their entangled paths may reach all the way back to Lila's time as a geology student in the foothills of the Himalayas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow best to tell Lila's story and follow the links between a fossil fraud in India, an ice core archive in Canada, the Burgess Shale quarry, and a climate change laboratory in Germany? As their detective work unfolds, the two women encounter some of today's most urgent and fascinating science, as well as the many shapes of internal criticism in the sciences. They also come face to face with ecological grief and human-non-human entanglements. With this playful and deeply serious genre-blurring work, Singh gives a new direction to the novel in the Anthropocene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSingh, Jaspreet:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJaspreet Singh\u003c\/b\u003e's non-fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eGranta, Brick, \u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eChef\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHelium\u003c\/i\u003e, the story collection \u003ci\u003eSeventeen Tomatoes\u003c\/i\u003e, the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eNovember\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently, the memoir \u003ci\u003eMy Mother, My Translator\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been published internationally and has been translated into several languages. He lives in Calgary.","brand":"Touchwood Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50449028579602,"sku":"9781927366974","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b80108c4-a40b-47f4-a356-67a38a27f8a8.jpg?v=1729742635","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/face-a-novel-of-the-anthropocene-9781927366974","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}