{"product_id":"thieving-sun-hardcover","title":"Thieving Sun - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMonica Datta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe writing is dazzling and mysterious, and the world Datta builds -- one filled with grief, questions of origin, and the act of creation -- is expansive yet so precise. I don't know why this book isn't getting more attention. --Lauren Ro\u003ci\u003e, Vulture\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this searing debut novel, for readers of Katie Kitamura and Rachel Cusk, the tragic aftermath of a youthful relationship years after its end brings the life of a mourning woman in New York--and the pursuit of art--into stark relief. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold in short passages through a musical device, this international story follows Julienne and Gaspar to Syria, China, Germany and elsewhere. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJulienne, a student of sculpture, and Gaspar, a young composer, fall in love at a small college and share a home for more than a decade before encountering the fundamental rift that will change their lives. The reverberations of grief force Julienne to confront her painful past including the mystery of her own birth and the fantastical story ascribed to it by her flight attendant mother, so that she can envision, for the first time, a real future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately, Thieving Sun is a profound and contemporary meditation on art, grief, debt, suicide, loss, and the danger of being alive.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonica Datta received degrees in architecture and urban design from the City University of New York, the London School of Economics, and the Bartlett School of Architecture (UCL), as well as an MFA in creative writing from Washington University in St. Louis, from which she received a Divided City\/Mellon Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship to study segregation in fiction and urban morphology in France, Morocco, and Germany. Her writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Inquiry\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eConjunctions, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other journals. She teaches at Pratt Institute and the Cooper Union.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 7.1 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52607151243546,"sku":"9781662602573","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1005\/5604\/6618\/files\/bg5rNomHul9781662602573.webp?v=1785332678","url":"https:\/\/j-s-five-and-dime.myshopify.com\/products\/thieving-sun-hardcover","provider":"J \u0026 S Five and Dime","version":"1.0","type":"link"}