{"product_id":"skye-papers-9781952177965","title":"Skye Papers","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwentysomething and restless, Skye flits between cities and stagnant relationships until she meets Scottie, a disarming and disheveled British traveler, and Pieces, an enigmatic artist living in New York. The three recognize each other as kindred spirits--Black, punk, whimsical, revolutionary--and fall in together, leading Skye on an unlikely adventure across the Atlantic. They live a glorious, subterranean existence in 1990s London: making multimedia art, throwing drug-fueled parties, and eking out a living by busking in Tube stations, until their existence is jeopardized by the rise of CCTV and policing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn fluid and unrelenting prose, Jamika Ajalon's debut novel explores youth, poetry, and what it means to come terms with queerness. \u003cem\u003eSkye Papers\u003c\/em\u003e is an imaginative, episodic group portrait of a transatlantic art scene spearheaded by people of color--and of the fraught, dystopian reality of increasing state surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJamika Ajalon is a prolific author and interdisciplinary artist who works with different mediums independently, but also in multiple fusions--incorporating written and spoken text, sound\/music, and visuals. Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in various publications internationally. She currently writes a regular column for \u003cem\u003eItchy Silk\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, \"queer plume: the fugitive diaries.\" She has performed her audiovisual anti-lectures \/ sonic slam and exhibited across the globe, and has a BA in Film\/Video and an MA in Communications in Culture and Society, from Goldsmiths University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Amethyst Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50567699530002,"sku":"9781952177965","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_28cfe78e-d28c-492e-bb97-a48b79865f4f.jpg?v=1731926612","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/skye-papers-9781952177965","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}