{"product_id":"glyph-a-novel","title":"Glyph: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\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\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGhosts don't exist.\u003cbr\u003eThey don't. End of.\u003cbr\u003eStory, however.\u003cbr\u003eIt is haunting.\u003cbr\u003eEverything tells it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs it imaginary? Is it real?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat to do? She phones her sister.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn a chiarascuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, Glyph asks if we’re attending to the history that’s made us and to the history we’re making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, Glyph is 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52868448747795,"sku":"9780593701584","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0815\/1652\/7891\/files\/9780593701584.jpg?v=1767286031","url":"https:\/\/www.monsterasbooks.com\/products\/glyph-a-novel","provider":"Monstera's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}