{"product_id":"the-atlas-of-reds-and-blues-9780708899335","title":"The Atlas of Reds and Blues","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing inspiration from the author's own terrifying experience of a raid on her home, Devi S. Laskar's debut novel explores, in exquisite, lyrical prose, an alternate reality that might have been.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDevi S. Laskar's \u003ci\u003eThe Atlas of Reds and Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003eas narratively beautiful as it is brutal\u003c\/b\u003e. In prose that moves between cushioning characters' falls and ushering our understandings of characters' utopias, Laskar creates a world where the consequences of American terror never stop reverberating. \u003cb\u003eI've never read a novel that does nearly as much in so few pages.\u003c\/b\u003e Laskar has changed how we will all write about state-sanctioned terror in this nation\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Atlas of Reds and Blues\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003ean unforgettable exploration of what it means to be a woman of colour in contemporary America\u003c\/b\u003e. Laskar describes the climate of lingering racism that surrounds her narrator and family in a wealthy suburb of Atlanta with a poet's touch. \u003cb\u003eA searing, powerful, and beautifully written novel\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the quotidian to the epic, from traumatizing invisibility to mortal danger, the cumulative effects of racism are balanced against the narrator's relentless determination to persevere - as a mother and as a human being. \u003ci\u003eThe Atlas of Reds and Blues\u003c\/i\u003e provides a \u003cb\u003efiercely honest \u003c\/b\u003ereckoning with today's cultural landscape, both its history and its future","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47846302908759,"sku":"9780708899335","price":10.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780708899335.jpg?v=1710523993","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-atlas-of-reds-and-blues-9780708899335","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}