{"product_id":"9781988298993","title":"Wan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the 2023 Fred Kerner Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Miramichi Reader Best Fiction of 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eWan\u003c\/i\u003e is a masterpiece. This beautiful, painterly, sublime, and sonically exquisite novel by Dawn Promislow is a work of utter genius.\" - Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, author of \u003ci\u003eAll the Broken Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNarrated in a completely distinctive and mesmerizing voice, \u003ci\u003eWan\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Jacqueline, a privileged artist in 1970s South Africa. After an anti-apartheid activist comes to hide in her garden house, Jacqueline's carefully constructed life begins to unravel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in gorgeous and spare prose, this exquisite debut novel grapples with questions of complicity and guilt, of privilege, and of the immeasurable value of art and of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Promislow, Dawn (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback B102","offer_id":50889655681279,"sku":"9781988298993","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0694\/8559\/2764\/files\/BNCImageAPI_3343c841-7e5e-4db3-9170-b0645ecd320e.jpg?v=1793657460","url":"https:\/\/wordsquirrelbooks.com\/products\/9781988298993","provider":"Word Squirrel Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}