{"product_id":"coelacanth-philip-allen-9798230967897","title":"Coelacanth","description":"\u003cp\u003eDefying putative extinction, this 80,000-word coelacanth conveys the resurrection of a student protest movement in a fictitious island (AuxIndes) off the coast of Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Insular activists - joined by a pair of young Black Americans bearing their own legacies of bondage - work through business and professional channels to manage a vulnerable republic, despite its isolation, poverty, and corruption. Prevailing insular dynamics force the principal characters to readjust their connections with one-another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurrounding them, the ocean environment exemplifies the conduct of elusive communications, to assure survival, and to recombine resourcefully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To The Indies turns on the sensibility of Cynthia Van Zan, product of a once-enslaved Louisiana family and a father descended from West African royalty. A graphic artist with special \"gifts,\" Van Zan enlivens the narrative through innate affinity with creatures of the ocean. Her colleague, Denis Guyane, born in New York of Haitian immigrants, pursues a more terrestrial career as trouble-shooter for their AuxIndien employer, the Fisherman and sometime President Roger Masson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e After a period of enforced isolation, interrelated crises bring the principals together on both predictable and eccentric pathways. These include prospects for a professional reunion of Van Zan and Guyane in Manhattan as the Covid emergency is about to burst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798230967897\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Allen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/22\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 372\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.83d","brand":"Philip Allen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46465887043839,"sku":"9798230967897","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_17255437-1df6-4b98-b189-a7708c02b1c8.jpg?v=1736347577","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coelacanth-philip-allen-9798230967897","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}