{"product_id":"skye-papers-9781952177965","title":"Skye Papers","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwentysomething and restless, Skye flits between cities and stagnant relationships until she meets Scottie, a disarming and disheveled British traveler, and Pieces, an enigmatic artist living in New York. The three recognize each other as kindred spirits--Black, punk, whimsical, revolutionary--and fall in together, leading Skye on an unlikely adventure across the Atlantic. They live a glorious, subterranean existence in 1990s London: making multimedia art, throwing drug-fueled parties, and eking out a living by busking in Tube stations, until their existence is jeopardized by the rise of CCTV and policing.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn fluid and unrelenting prose, Jamika Ajalon's debut novel explores youth, poetry, and what it means to come terms with queerness. \u003cem\u003eSkye Papers\u003c\/em\u003e is an imaginative, episodic group portrait of a transatlantic art scene spearheaded by people of color--and of the fraught, dystopian reality of increasing state surveillance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Amethyst Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/08\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781952177965\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272","brand":"Jamika Ajalon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39956141015221,"sku":"9781952177965","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a0a634cc-57ab-4a69-826e-e6fc542b5092.jpg?v=1620219024","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/skye-papers-9781952177965","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}