{"product_id":"ruins-child","title":"Ruins, Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower, \u003cem\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaro’s novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable. With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolf’s \u003cem\u003eThe Waves\u003c\/em\u003e, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often  vernacular, often overheard. It’s a book seemingly drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: Scodellaro’s female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalization. A surreal musing, \u003cem\u003eRuins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fitzcarraldo Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56191896584536,"sku":"9781804272114","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781804272114_8a1a0c52-12e0-42b4-918f-9ce3ec8eba92.jpg?v=1778292928","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/ruins-child","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}