{"product_id":"these-dreams-of-you-9781609450632","title":"These Dreams of You","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Set against the backdrop of Obama's ascendancy to the presidency . . . A complex and imaginative literary tapestry about family and identity\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review). \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once immediate and epic, funny and devastating, this new novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eShadowbahn\u003c\/i\u003e is a transcendent dispatch from the intersection of art and politics, passion and memory.\u003cbr\u003eOne November night in a canyon outside Los Angeles, Zan Nordhoc--a failed novelist turned pirate radio DJ--sits before the television with his small, adopted black daughter, watching the election of his country's first black president, Barack Obama. In the nova of this historic moment, with an economic recession threatening their home, Zan, his wife, and their son set out to solve the enigma of the little girl's life. When they find themselves scattered and strewn across two continents, a mysterious stranger with a secret appears, who sends the story spiraling forty years into the past.\u003cbr\u003eSweeping from 1960s London and '70s Berlin to twenty-first-century California, and the beginning-of-civilization Ethiopia, These Dreams of You chronicles not only a family struggling to salvage its bonds but a twelve-year-old boy readying himself for what the years to come hold. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Truly electrifying. In its gorgeous, vivid prose and its acutely sensitive soul, \u003cem\u003eThese Dreams of You\u003c\/em\u003e shows us just what a novel can still do in our own crazy times.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Drama filled with exuberance.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The four Nordhocs who provide the messy, vibrant heart of \u003cem\u003eThese Dreams of You\u003c\/em\u003e make up a representative tableau for the new millennium: the American family as mash-up.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteve Erickson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of eight previous novels including \u003ci\u003eZeroville \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOur Ecstatic Days\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as two nonfiction books about politics and popular culture that have been published in ten languages around the world. Currently he's the editor of the national literary journal \u003ci\u003eBlack Clock\u003c\/i\u003e, which is published by the California Institute of the Arts where he teaches, and he is also a film critic at \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles \u003c\/i\u003emagazine, for which he's been nominated for the National Magazine Award. He has received an American Academy of Arts and Letters award in literature and a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Europa Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50359823597842,"sku":"9781609450632","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_51f36d92-b876-4678-bc29-71d66a2cb2d8.jpg?v=1728357797","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/these-dreams-of-you-9781609450632","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}