{"product_id":"yr-dead-by-sam-sax","title":"Yr Dead by Sam Sax","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI can’t make heads or tails of it, the goat on the corner of Union and Metropolitan.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eIt is 2016. Ezra is a queer, Jewish person carrying out their last act of protest outside Trump Tower, New York.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eWhile they experience their final moments, their life flashes across time and geography, leaping from memories of childhood to the inherited memory and historical movements of their family: smoking Winstons aged twelve, after Hebrew School; their mother disappearing without a trace; a college reunion filled with ghosts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eVisceral, propulsive and at turns fluorescently beautiful and tragic, \u003cem\u003eYr Dead\u003c\/em\u003e is a diasporic bildungsroman that explores the things that make us human and alive with clear-eyed sincerity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Tender and subtle . . . a novel that could so easily lean into the horror of its central act but instead settles on something more delicate.’ \u003cem\u003eDaily\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘[An] ambitious, unflinching tale.’ \u003cem\u003eObserver\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘With \u003ci data-stringify-type=\"italic\"\u003eYr Dead\u003c\/i\u003e, Sax revivifies the novel form, sculpting a poignant narrative that accumulates in meaning and sticks in the mind long after reading . . . Refreshing as it is revelatory.’ Peter Scalpello\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Lyrical, dizzying . . . Sax skilfully captures the effect of a culture in crisis.’ \u003cem\u003eThe Skinny\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘A singular, titrated, indelible debut.’ Alexander Chee\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e‘I’ve long been dazzled by Sam Sax’s writing . . . \u003ci\u003eYr Dead\u003c\/i\u003e is a kaleidoscopic wonder.’ R. O. Kwon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A stunning, dizzying, fun-house mirror of a novel. There is anger here, and grief, but most of all tenderness . . . I often held my breath reading.’ Jenny Mustard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘It surprised me – startling me into a laugh, into knowledge, into a deep and enduring ache. I love this book.’ Safia Elhillo\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘It’s not just that I trust Sam Sax’s imagination. My sincere belief is that Sam’s creative freedom unlocks the potential for our liberation.’ Saeed Jones\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Sax skillfully captures the effect of a culture in crisis.’ \u003cem\u003eSkinny\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘A miracle of a book, a brutal, bittersweet, beautiful study in transmuting history into what you do, instead of what has been done to you . . . I love this book with every fiber of my being.’ \u003cem\u003eRumpus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e‘Sax has produced a work that is meditative, deeply humane, and profoundly original.’ Starred review, \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback \/ 288 pages\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookish Type","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45570135949527,"sku":null,"price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0264\/0891\/0933\/files\/9781914198861.jpg?v=1724403875","url":"https:\/\/thebookishtype.pro\/products\/yr-dead-by-sam-sax","provider":"The Bookish Type","version":"1.0","type":"link"}