{"product_id":"canoes","title":"Canoes","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eEastbound\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Top 10 Book of the Year \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA colorful cast of female characters contends with UFOs, sonic waves, and the legend of Buffalo Bill in a spellbinding novella and 7 short stories about the mysteries of place and language \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The translation of any of Maylis de Kerangal's books is a gift.\" -- Lauren Oyler, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"De Kerangal's masterful collection examines alienation and grief at pivotal moments in her characters' lives . . . Each story is richly complex, and the collection's recurring canoe imagery gives it the feel of a treasure map . . . This understated volume packs a powerful punch.\" -- \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRicocheting off of the book's exhilarating central novella and 7 short stories, the women we meet in \u003ci\u003eCanoes \u003c\/i\u003eare by turns indelibly witty, insightful, intimate, bracing, and profoundly interconnected. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"When did I start placing myself in the fable?\" a young Parisian wonders as she tells her son the legend of Buffalo Bill, a spectral presence atop the mountain in their small Colorado town. She has just moved to the United States and everything disorients her - suburbs stretching along reptilian highways, a new house rigged like a studio set, but most of all, the sound of her husband's voice. Sam speaks with a different tone in English, not the soft and swift timbre of his native French. From a voice made new, Maylis de Kerangal opens up a torrent of curiosities, hauntings, and questions about place and language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe women of these stories are mad about: stones, molds of human jaws, voicemail recordings, sonic waves, UFOs, and always how the texture of human voice entwines with their obsessions. With cosmic harmonics, vivid imagery, and a revelatory composition, \u003ci\u003eCanoes \u003c\/i\u003ewill leave readers forever altered.","brand":"Archipelago Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53639214891374,"sku":"9781953861962","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_f167197a-e6b5-47b1-ac22-e1addf18247a.jpg?v=1776571383","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/canoes","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}