{"product_id":"apsara-engine-9781936932818","title":"Apsara Engine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy turns fantastical and familiar, this graphic short story collection is immersed in questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe eight delightfully eerie stories in \u003cem\u003eApsara Engine\u003c\/em\u003e are a subtle intervention into everyday reality. A woman drowns herself in a past affair, a tourist chases another guest into an unforeseen past, and a nonbinary academic researches postcolonial cartography. Imagining diverse futures and rewriting old mythologies, these comics delve into strange architectures, fetishism, and heartbreak.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePainted in rich, sepia-toned watercolors, \u003cem\u003eApsara Engine\u003c\/em\u003e is Bishakh Som's highly anticipated debut work of fiction. Showcasing a series of fraught, darkly humorous, and seemingly alien worlds--which ring all too familiar--Som captures the weight of twenty-first-century life as we hurl ourselves forward into the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"An astonishing collection of stories that expand and pulse into galaxy-sized moments of strangeness and wonder.\" --Kelly Link, author of \u003cem\u003eGet in Trouble\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Som has created a collection of short stories that dance between genres and identities, moving from incisive descriptions of modern social realities to poetic ruminations on the future. This anthology by an up-and-coming comics superstar, which centers queer and trans South Asian narratives, is precisely what we need right now.\" \u003cem\u003e--Them\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Feminist Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936932818\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.80lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.90h x 8.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/13\/2020\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bishakh Som","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36671196954780,"sku":"9781936932818","price":21.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_e132fa9f-0d74-46fe-a2ba-e1df0f19dc53.jpg?v=1603924806","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/apsara-engine-9781936932818","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}