{"product_id":"block-seventeen-9781799956488","title":"Block Seventeen","description":"\u003cp\u003eAkiko \"Jane\" Thompson, a half-Japanese, half-Caucasian woman in her midthirties, is attempting to forge a quietly happy life in the Bay Area with her fianc , Shiro. But after a bizarre car accident, things begin to unravel. An intruder ransacks their apartment but takes nothing, leaving behind only cryptic traces of his or her presence. Shiro, obsessed with government surveillance, risks their security in a plot to expose the misdeeds of his employer, the TSA. Jane's mother has seemingly disappeared, her existence only apparent online. Jane wants to ignore these worrisome disturbances until a cry from the past robs her of all peace, forcing her to uncover a long-buried family trauma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Jane searches for her mother, she confronts her family's fraught history in America. She learns how the incarceration of Japanese Americans fractured her family, and how persecution and fear can drive a person to commit desperate acts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn melodic and suspenseful prose, Guthrie leads the reader to and from the past, through an unreliable present, and, inescapably, toward a shocking revelation. Block Seventeen, at times playful and light, at others disturbing and disorienting, explores how fear of the \"other\" continues to shape our minds and distort our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Blackstone Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/22\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781799956488","brand":"Kimiko Guthrie","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40085189755061,"sku":"9781799956488","price":14.44,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_4f634dd4-ca92-4bf2-b11a-67084c06f723.jpg?v=1621899542","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/block-seventeen-9781799956488","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}