{"product_id":"the-resisters-9780525657224","title":"The Resisters","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe moving story of one family struggling to maintain their humanity in circumstances that threaten their every value--from the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThank You, Mr. Nixon. \u003c\/i\u003e- \"Intricately imagined ... [It] grows directly out of the soil of our current political moment.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The time: not so long from now. The place: AutoAmerica, a country surveilled by one \"Aunt Nettie,\" a Big Brother that is part artificial intelligence, part internet, and oddly human--even funny. The people: divided. The \"angelfair\" Netted have jobs and, what with the country half under water, literally occupy the high ground. The Surplus live on swampland if they're lucky, on water if they're not. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The story: To a Surplus couple--he once a professor, she still a lawyer--is born a girl, Gwen, with a golden arm. Her teens find her happily playing in an underground baseball league, but when AutoAmerica faces ChinRussia in the Olympics, Gwen finds herself in dangerous territory, playing ball with the Netted even as her mother battles this apartheid-like society in court.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGISH JEN is the author of four previous novels, a story collection, and two works of nonfiction. Her honors include the Lannan Literary Award for fiction and the Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She delivered the William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies at Harvard University. She teaches from time to time in China and otherwise lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50567715291410,"sku":"9780525657224","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f95428d4-f9f5-4a17-8257-666bb88a5e20.jpg?v=1731927084","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-resisters-9780525657224","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}