{"product_id":"the-furrows-9780593448939","title":"The Furrows","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award - One of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times' \u003c\/i\u003eTen Best Books of the Year - Longlisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A triumph.\"--\u003ci\u003eNew York Magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the most celebrated new voices in American literature, a brilliantly inventive and \"enthralling\" (\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e) novel about the eternal bonds of family and the mysteries of love and loss--\"already earning its author comparisons to Toni Morrison\" (\u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker, Oprah Daily, Time, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Esquire, Vulture, Ms. Magazine, Vox, Mental Floss, BookPage, Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI don't want to tell you what happened. I want to tell you how it felt.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCassandra Williams is twelve; her little brother, Wayne, is seven. One day, when they're alone together, there is an accident and Wayne is lost forever. His body is never recovered. The missing boy cleaves the family with doubt. Their father leaves, starts another family elsewhere. But their mother can't give up hope and launches an organization dedicated to missing children. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs C grows older, she sees her brother everywhere: in bistros, airplane aisles, subway cars. Here is her brother's face, the light in his eyes, the way he seems to recognize her, too. But it can't be, of course. Or can it? Then one day, in another accident, C meets a man both mysterious and familiar, a man who is also searching for someone and for his own place in the world. His name is Wayne. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNamwali Serpell's remarkable new novel captures the uncanny experience of grief, the way the past breaks over the present like waves in the sea. \u003ci\u003eThe Furrows \u003c\/i\u003eis a bold exploration of memory and mourning that twists unexpectedly into a story of mistaken identity, double consciousness, and the wishful--and sometimes willful--longing for reunion with those we've lost.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamwali Serpell\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Lusaka, Zambia, and lives in New York. She received a 2020 Windham-Campbell Literature Prize, the 2015 Caine Prize for African Writing, and a 2011 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Old Drift, \u003c\/i\u003e won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times's\u003c\/i\u003e Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction; it was named one of the 100 Notable Books of 2019 by the\u003ci\u003e New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eone of \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003emagazine's 100 Must-Read Books of the Year. Her nonfiction book, \u003ci\u003eStranger Faces\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award for criticism. She is currently a professor of English at Harvard.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50613440184594,"sku":"9780593448939","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_184f084e-fad3-464f-bda4-a06b08a9affa.jpg?v=1732401228","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-furrows-9780593448939","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}