{"product_id":"the-avian-hourglass","title":"The Avian Hourglass","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Avian Hourglass\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eLindsey Drager\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781950539970\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eDzanc Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2024\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e212\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Splendidly odd and arresting.\"--Kevin Brockmeier, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Variations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Illumination\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAt once an ode to birds, an elegy to space, and a journey into the most haunted and uncanny corners of the human mind, \u003ci\u003eThe Avian Hourglass\u003c\/i\u003e showcases Lindsey Drager's signature brilliance in a stunning, surrealist novel for fans of Jesse Ball, Helen Oyeyemi, Yoko Ogawa, and Shirley Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe birds have disappeared. The stars are no longer visible. The Crisis is growing worse. In a town as isolated as a snowglobe, a woman who dreams of becoming a radio astronomer struggles to raise the triplets she gave birth to as a gestational surrogate, whose parents were killed in a car accident. Surrounded by characters who wear wings, memorize etymologies, and build gigantic bird nests, and bound to this town in which young adults must decide between two binary worldviews--either YES or NO--the woman is haunted by the old fable of the Girl in Glass Vessel, a cautionary tale about prying back the façade of one's world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen events begin to unfold that suggest a local legend about the town being the whole of the universe might be true, the woman finds her understanding of her own life-and her reality-slipping through her fingers. A reflection on mental health, the climate emergency, political polarization, and the growing reliance on technology, \u003ci\u003eThe Avian Hourglass\u003c\/i\u003e asks readers to reframe how they conceive of a series of concentric understandings of home: the globe, one's country, one's town, one's family, and one's own body.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Dzanc Books","offers":[{"title":"The Avian Hourglass | Lindsey Drager | Paperback | 9781950539970 | New | Fiction 1736202","offer_id":50881124335874,"sku":"1736202","price":32.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/811WE8ZYIrL.jpg?v=1793059731","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-avian-hourglass","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}