{"product_id":"the-diapause-paperback-1","title":"The Diapause - Paperback","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\u003eAndrew Forbes\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Andrew Forbes's exquisitely rendered prose makes \u003ci\u003eThe Diapause\u003c\/i\u003e both realistic and futuristic, devastating even while it is oddly hopeful. Vast and intimate, the novel absorbs and grips. I cannot shake its central image: the strange little noodles, the mysterious worms who seem to be dancing in the moments before catastrophe.\"\u003cb\u003e--Liz Harmer, author of \u003ci\u003eStrange Loops\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen ten-year-old Gabriel and his parents retire to his late grandfather's disused cabin to wait out a pandemic, the big, dangerous world seems very far away, and Gabriel enjoys the freest summer of his young life. But tensions begin to surface, testing the family unit, and resulting in consequences that he will spend his life attempting to unravel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning nearly a half-century, \u003ci\u003eThe Diapause\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary-speculative-fiction novel about the near future, family, isolation, heartbreak, climate change, how we keep each other safe, and all the things we don't know about the people we know best. Part \u003ci\u003eWhite Fang\u003c\/i\u003e, part \u003ci\u003eStation Eleven\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Diapause\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about how the things we seek are often the things we didn't know we'd lost.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Forbes\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the short story collections \u003ci\u003eLands and Forests\u003c\/i\u003e (2019), and \u003ci\u003eWhat You Need\u003c\/i\u003e (2015), which was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and named a finalist for the Trillium Book Prize. He is also the author of two collections of baseball writing, \u003ci\u003eThe Utility of Boredom\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Only Way is the Steady Way\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has appeared in publications such as the \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCanadian Notes and Queries\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMaisonneuve Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Ottawa, Forbes has lived in Atlantic Canada and rural eastern Ontario, and now resides in Peterborough, Ontario.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47260419948793,"sku":"9781778430503","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/YIg2pc5hNO9781778430503_07bfaaa9-4ccf-4a19-934c-b589e5578da1.webp?v=1768785381","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-diapause-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}