{"product_id":"captive-new-short-fiction-from-africa-9781946395948","title":"Captive: New Short Fiction from Africa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrittle Paper\u003c\/i\u003e's \"Anticipated African Books of 2024\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Short Story Day Africa, eleven writers from Africa and the African diaspora explore the identities that connect us, the obsessions that bewitch us, and the self-delusions that drive us apart.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassion and apathy, creation and destruction, honesty and deception--the blurred lines between these powerful forces are fundamental to the human condition. In three parts, the writers of \u003ci\u003eCaptive\u003c\/i\u003e investigate these liminal spaces and rail against the boxes in which others seek to confine them, as writers, as Africans, and as humans.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJourney from the fantastical Heaven's Mouth where time stands still, to a London bus where a neurodiverse woman steals love to the songs of Tom Jones . . . flip the page to Ghana to examine a fertility fetish, or a post-apocalyptic Lesotho where sentient AI uses our emotions against us . . . visit the deceptively beautiful islands off the Tanzanian coast, where the ocean is always hungry, and women pay the price. \u003ci\u003eCaptive\u003c\/i\u003e is a riot of imagination, a collision of worlds, and a testament to the shape-shifting nature of the soul.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catalyst Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/07\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781946395948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 453","brand":"Short Story Day Africa, Sola Njoku, Moso Sematlane","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43733071560885,"sku":"9781946395948","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_aab022ad-4f6b-4537-9978-066d04b13b45.jpg?v=1710258116","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/captive-new-short-fiction-from-africa-9781946395948","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}