{"product_id":"saltcrop-9781250380968","title":"Saltcrop","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eThe Stardust Grail\u003c\/i\u003e comes the epic tale of two sisters who sail across oceans to find their missing third sister--and Earth's environmental salvation. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn Earth's not too distant future, seas consume coastal cities, highways disintegrate underwater, and mutant fish lurk in pirate-controlled depths. Skipper, a skilled sailor and the youngest of three sisters, earns money skimming and reselling plastic from the ocean to care for her ailing grandmother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut then her eldest sister, Nora, goes missing. Nora left home a decade ago in pursuit of a cure for failing crops all over the world. When Skipper and her other sister, Carmen, receive a cryptic plea for help, they must put aside their differences and set out across the sea to find--and save--her. As they voyage through a dying world both beautiful and strange, encountering other travelers along the way, they learn more about their sister's work and the corporations that want what she discovered. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut the farther they go, the more uncertain their mission becomes: What dangerous attention did Nora attract, and how well do they really know their sister--or each other? Thus begins an epic journey spanning oceans and continents and a wistful rumination on sisterhood, friendship, and ecological disaster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYume Kitasei\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSaltcrop\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Stardust Grail\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Deep Sky\u003c\/i\u003e. She is Japanese and American and grew up in a space between two cultures--the same space where her stories reside. She lives in Brooklyn with two cats, Boondoggle and Filibuster.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Flatiron Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51624082276626,"sku":"9781250380968","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_804ea07a-669b-4823-97c5-9e7bcb8b08c1.jpg?v=1758653781","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/saltcrop-9781250380968","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}