{"product_id":"bxosbd-things-they-lost-9781982102579","title":"Things They Lost","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNamed a Most Anticipated Book by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVogue\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eVulture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Alternately whimsical, sweet, and dark,” this astonishing debut novel about a lonely girl waiting for her mother “brim[s] with uncompromisingly African magical realism” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAyosa is a wandering spirit—joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother’s crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who teach her to dance and wail at the death news; the Jolly-Annas, cruel birds who cover their solitude with spiteful laughter; the milkman, who never greets Ayosa and whose milk tastes of mud; and Sindano, the kind owner of a café no one ever visits. Unexpectedly, miraculously, one day Ayosa finds a friend. Yet she is always fixed on her beautiful mama, Nabumbo Promise: a mysterious and aloof photographer, she comes and goes as she pleases, with no apology or warning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSet at the intersection of the spirit world and the human one, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThings They Lost\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esets out a rich and magical vision of “girlhood as a time of complexity, laced with unparalleled creativity and expansion” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eVogue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). Heartbreaking, elegant, and written in “giddily exuberant prose” (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), it’s a story about connection, coming-of-age, and the dizzying dualities of love at its most intoxicating and all-encompassing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43079973896398,"sku":"9781982102579","price":29.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/0883\/2974\/files\/9781982102579_a.png?v=1751277614","url":"https:\/\/www.bookxcess.com\/products\/bxosbd-things-they-lost-9781982102579","provider":"BookXcess","version":"1.0","type":"link"}