{"product_id":"ruins-child","title":"Ruins, Child","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSet in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower,\u003cem\u003e Ruins, Child\u003c\/em\u003e is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGiada 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 The Waves, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt’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 marginalisation. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA 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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giada Scodellaro","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57667713073539,"sku":"9781804272114","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/websitecovertemplate-1992.png?v=1774363912","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.com\/products\/ruins-child","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}