{"product_id":"may-we-feed-the-king","title":"May We Feed the King","description":"\u003cb\u003eA curator becomes lost in the medieval world of a reluctant monarch in this searing debut, exploring what becomes lost over time and what devotion can reanimate.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA curator spends her days reconstructing the past--selecting and carefully arranging furniture, fabrics, and fragments of daily life to bring medieval rooms back to life. Whether it's a feast with spilling platters or a table for two littered with small hints of intimacy: it must appear as if the people have just left the room.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter accepting a commission to work on the private quarters of a medieval palace, the curator becomes absorbed in the story of a king almost forgotten by history. As she studies the traces he left behind, the boundary between her own life and his begins to blur.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe King is an unlikely ruler: a man with little appetite for power, hurried to the throne after the sudden deaths of his brothers. At court, doubts about his judgment are whispered from chamber to chamber. Then an unthinkable possibility emerges among the gossip: maybe someone else will take the crown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA riveting debut from an award-winning poet, \u003ci\u003eMay We Feed the King\u003c\/i\u003e is a story seen through shadows and old slips of paper, heard through cracked doors and murmured breaths. It asks how history takes shape--and how the stories that survive can distort the lives they claim to preserve. Laced with desire and longing, Perry's novel is a searing meditation on the small details and large gaps that make up a life, on what becomes lost over time and what our devotion can reanimate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Transit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53823713575278,"sku":"9798893380620","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_d2583cc8-5b60-4439-abb2-c1936d2ee876.jpg?v=1779546424","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/may-we-feed-the-king","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}