{"product_id":"9781804272114","title":"Ruins, Child - Giada Scodellaro","description":"\u003cp\u003eSet in what may be the future, and centred on six women sharing a space in some sort of crumbling apartment tower,�Ruins, Child�is remarkable for its irresistible sweep, wit, and prickly splintered truth. Giada Scodellaro's novel is like a precious old mirror: dropped, looking up at you, flashing light and bits of the undeniable. With the pulsating sway of its liquid mosaic narrative, the novel may recall Virginia Woolf's�The Waves, but is entirely its own animal: kaleidoscopic, pointedly disorienting in its looseness, and powered along by snatches of speech from its compelling ensemble cast, often vernacular, often overheard. It's a book seemingly drawn from deep wells of Black American reality: Scodellaro's female protagonists push back against authority in the very vivacity of their telling, setting afoot a freeing-up and a mysterious inversion of marginalization. A surreal musing,�Ruins, Child�uses the lens of urban infrastructure, social commentary, folklore, choreography and collective listening to create an ethnography of place and an ode to communal ruins.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Giada Scodellaro","offers":[{"title":"176 pages \/ 26\/03\/2026 \/ Myth \u0026 legend told as fiction","offer_id":56970869408119,"sku":"9781804272114","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9781804272114.jpg?v=1781000540","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9781804272114","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}