{"product_id":"the-president-shop-9789533512952","title":"The President Shop","description":"\"\u003ci\u003eThe President Shop\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvelous, timeless book that sweeps between the personal and the panoramic as it asks, Does every family, or country, contain an axis, around which the rest of it spins? Can you hear the voice of a stone? How clearly can anyone see the past or future? For which tyrannies have we been unwittingly waving flags?\" --Catherine Lacey, author of\u003ci\u003e Pew \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCertain American States \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The President, the founder of the Nation, is an old man now, but his young and unifying spirit stands steadfastly at the heart of The President Shop, Vesna Maric's debut novel. Images of and tributes to the President are found in all homes in the Nation, procured from stores like the one Ruben and Rosa run. The couple met as partisans, fighting to forge the Nation in the crucible of conflict. But even though their pride shines as brightly as the gilded bust of the President, the younger generation has questioned whether the Nation really has its citizens best interests in mind. Ruben's brother is actively working to avoid mandatory military service as he pines away for another man, and Ruben and Rosa's daughter Mona is too busy adjusting to womanhood to get caught up in state-mandated nostalgia. To further exacerbate the family tension, an elderly uncle claims to have invented a machine to see into the future, which he stores in the basement of the family's apartment building. But there is no telling what the future really holds in store as the beliefs of the past slowly start to crumble.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sandorf Passage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789533512952\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 212","brand":"Vesna Maric","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38471608041653,"sku":"9789533512952","price":16.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_32990849-28c0-4502-989c-ded8cb288150.jpg?v=1612931005","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-president-shop-9789533512952","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}