{"product_id":"swim-home-to-the-vanished-9780063241084","title":"Swim Home to the Vanished","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Reading the West Book Award in the Debut Fiction \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSwim Home to the Vanished\u003c\/em\u003e is a lush and fantastic journey through strange lands and minds from an incandescent new voice full of my kind of melancholic brilliance and unromantic magic.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e--\u003cstrong\u003eTommy Orange, author of \u003cem\u003eThere, There\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAfter the death of his brother, a grief-stricken young man seeks refuge and oblivion in a secluded fishing village dominated by a family of brujas in this haunting debut novel, inspired, in part, by the ramifications of Din? history and thought--a mesmerizing, original tale in the tradition of works by Toni Morrison, Haruki Murakami, and Gabriel Garc?a M?rquez.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the river swallowed Kai, Damien's little brother didn't die so much as vanish. As the unbearable loss settles deeper into his bones, Damien, a small-town line cook, walks away from everything he has ever known. Driving as far south as his old truck and his legs allow, he lands in a fishing village beyond the reach of his past where he hopes he can finally forget.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut the village has grief of its own. The same day that Damien arrives, a young woman from the community's most powerful family is being laid to rest. A stranger in town, Damien is the object of gossip and suspicion, ignored by all except the dead girl's mother, Ana Maria, who offers Damien a room and a job.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGrateful for her kindness, Damien soon begins to fall under Ana Maria's charismatic spell. But how long can he resist the rumors swirling through town suggesting she might have had something to do with her daughter's death? Or deny his strange kinship with one of Ana Maria's surviving daughters, Marta, who knows too well the grief that follows the loss of a sibling--and who is driven by a fierce need for revenge? Swiftly, Damien finds himself caught in a power struggle between the brujas, a whirlwind battle that threatens to sweep the whole village out to sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eResonant with the Din? creation story and the unshakeable weight of the Long Walk--the forced removal of the Navajo from their land--\u003cem\u003eSwim Home to the Vanished\u003c\/em\u003e explores the human capacity for grief and redemption, and the lasting effects it has on the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBasham, Brendan Shay:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBrendan Shay Basham\u003c\/strong\u003e (Din?) is a fiction writer, poet, educator, and former chef, born in Alaska and raised in Northern Arizona. He received his MFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts, and a BA in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College. His work has appeared in \u003cem\u003ePuerto del Sol, Santa Fe Literary Review, Yellow Medicine Review, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJuked\u003c\/em\u003e, among other publications. He is a recipient of Poetry Northwest's inaugural James Welch Prize for Indigenous writers, the Ucross Foundation's first Fellowship for Native American Writers, and fellowships from the Truman Capote Literary Trust, Tin House, and Writing By Writers. Basham lives in Baltimore, where he runs a make-believe caf? with his wife and dog.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50599888814354,"sku":"9780063241084","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8e52bc7a-7d50-4050-ad0b-9c7c443af9a5.jpg?v=1748510679","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/swim-home-to-the-vanished-9780063241084","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}