{"product_id":"9780735249097","title":"Glyph","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom a literary master, a novel of ghosts and history and family legacy, of the unexpected acts of care that shine light into our dark.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGhosts don't exist. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey don't. End of.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStory, however. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt is haunting.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEverything tells it. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIs it imaginary? Is it real?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat to do? She phones her sister.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a chiarascuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, \u003ci\u003eGlyph \u003c\/i\u003easks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, \u003ci\u003eGlyph \u003c\/i\u003eis about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness. This anti-war novel, Ali Smith’s most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.","brand":"Ali Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":48035613769940,"sku":"9780735249097","price":36.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_30612ed1-e4fe-4bb8-82c4-f97ced01802b.jpg?v=1780362873","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780735249097","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}