{"product_id":"umami-9781780748917","title":"Umami","description":"\u003cp\u003eShortlisted for the Best Translated Fiction Book Award  2017 Ms. Jufresa: Where the f#! did you learn to tell a story so well? lvaro Enrigue  award-winning author of Sudden Death  As heard on NPRs Weekend Edition with Scott Simon  It started with a drowning.  Deep in the heart of Mexico City  where five houses cluster around a sun-drenched courtyard  lives Ana  a precocious twelve-year-old who spends her days buried in Agatha Christie novels to forget the mysterious death of her little sister years earlier. Over the summer she decides to plant a milpa in her backyard  and as she digs the ground and plants her seeds  her neighbors in turn delve into their past. The ripple effects of grief  childlessness  illness and displacement saturate their stories  secrets seep out and questions emerge  Who was my wife? Why did my Mom leave? Can I turn back the clock? And how could a girl who knew how to swim drown?  In prose that is dazzlingly inventive  funny and tender  Laia Jufresa immerses us in the troubled lives of her narrators  deftly unpicking their stories to offer a darkly comic portrait of contemporary Mexico  as whimsical as it is heart-wrenching.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45651860095029,"sku":"ByrdShop_1780748914","price":81.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781780748917.jpg?v=1781842552","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/umami-9781780748917","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}