{"product_id":"the-renovation-9780374609429","title":"The Renovation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA woman discovers that her bathroom has been remodeled into a prison cell--where she is an unlikely inmate--in this surreal novel of exile, grief, memory, and migration. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Salerno, Italy, Dilara spends her days caring for her aging father and her hypochondriac husband. Since leaving her native Istanbul, she's been unable to find a job--adrift, she becomes increasingly fixated on domestic improvement, specifically on the renovation of a second bathroom. When the work is completed, she enters and finds herself not in a bathroom but in a prison cell, and a Turkish one at that. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs she tries and fails to conceal the unfortunate discovery from her husband, she confronts the prison's other inhabitants--the buffoonish guards who refuse to believe her conundrum; the other women who begin filling the cells beyond hers--and the strange things that drift through it: the smell of the Bosporus, her mother's voice, calls to prayer . . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHas she gone mad? Is she the victim of a terrible prank? Is it a portal, a dream, a simulation? As she burrows deeper into her cell, her life beyond it begins to fall apart--her husband disappears, her father's grip on reality loosens, political dictatorship threatens to destroy everything worth keeping. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn his slender, disquieting first novel, Kenan Orhan tells a story of modern migration like no other. \u003ci\u003eThe Renovation\u003c\/i\u003e is a tragic comedy of displacement, a story that remodels its own form to the dazzling inevitable end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/10\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374609429\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Kenan Orhan","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52107749851317,"sku":"9780374609429","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e6ef1b51-445b-4a6e-8c23-0a685bd633ae.jpg?v=1765862133","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-renovation-9780374609429","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}