{"product_id":"scorpionfish-9781947793750","title":"Scorpionfish","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter the unexpected deaths of her parents, academic Mira returns to her childhood home in Athens. On her first night back, she encounters a new neighbor, a longtime ship captain who has found himself, for the first time in years, no longer at sea. As one summer night tumbles into another, Mira and the Captain's voices drift across the balconies of their apartments, disclosing details and stories: of careers, of families, of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Mira, love has so often meant Aris, an ex-boyfriend and rising Greek politician who has recently become engaged to a movie star. There is, too, her love for her dear friend Nefeli--a well-known artist who came of age during the military dictatorship--as well as Dimitra and Fady, a couple caring for a young refugee boy. Undergirding each relationship is the love that these characters have for Athens, a beautiful but complicated city that is equal parts lushness and sharp edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eScorpionfish\u003c\/em\u003e is a map of how and where we find our true selves: in the pull of the sea; the sway of late-night bar music; the risk and promise of art; and in the sparkling, electric, summertime charge of endless possibility. Award-winning author Natalie Bakopoulos braids a story of vulnerability, desire, and bittersweet truth, unraveling old ways of living and, in the end, creating something new.\u003c\/p\u003e\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 Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51831285285138,"sku":"9781947793750","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f948ab3c-1917-4c8a-933a-8acb4c4a429a.jpg?v=1767005615","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/scorpionfish-9781947793750","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}