{"product_id":"surfacing-kathleen-jamie-9780143134459","title":"Surfacing","description":"\u003cb\u003e\" Kathleen Jamie's] essays guide you softly along coastlines of varying continents, exploring caves, and pondering ice ages until the narrator stumbles over -- not a rock on the trail, but mortality, maybe the earth's, maybe our own, pointing to new paths forward through the forest.\" --Delia Owens, author of \u003ci\u003eWhere the Crawdads Sing, \u003c\/i\u003e\"By the Book\" in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn immersive exploration of time and place in a shrinking world, from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eSightlines.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. From the thawing tundra linking a Yup'ik village in Alaska to its hunter-gatherer past to the shifting sand dunes revealing the impressiely preserved homes of neolithic farmers in Scotland, Jamie explores how the changing natural world can alter our sense of time. Most movingly, she considers, as her father dies and her children leave home, the surfacing of an older, less tethered sense of herself. In precise, luminous prose, \u003ci\u003eSurfacing\u003c\/i\u003e offers a profound sense of time passing and an antidote to all that is instant, ephemeral, unrooted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kathleen Jamie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0143134450\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143134459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/24\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.30w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/08\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2019 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001","brand":"Kathleen Jamie","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988808139007,"sku":"9780143134459","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a40bb983-5d0e-446f-b282-ccb5a39ac490.jpg?v=1683296515","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/surfacing-kathleen-jamie-9780143134459","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}