{"product_id":"faun-9780999724767","title":"Faun","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Brandi George\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: 53rd State Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: 53rd State Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book flinches like a school of fish, a murmuration, a murder nation, my colonizer's baby handprint on a paneled wall in a farmhouse in Ovid, Michigan. The book unearths burial mounds and flattens them into fields. My ancestors removed the bones, and I removed arrowheads from the creek, and I held them to my heart, and I searched the grass for blood, but all I saw was a starling. She hid her eggs in my chest, and when I drifted to sleep I saw black-winged, nameless shadows. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the Book of Lily.\"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Faun\u003c\/em\u003e, Brandi George explores the sudden erasure of human and nonhuman populations from her hometown of Ovid, Michigan. Embodying various voices, forms, and media, a young girl named Lily undergoes a series of transformations guided by nymphs, flora, and fauna. A reworking of Ovid's \u003cem\u003eMetamorphoses\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFaun\u003c\/em\u003e also reflects on the themes of sexual violence that often occur in the mythic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"53rd State Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999534399639,"sku":"9780999724767","price":965.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780999724767.webp?v=1783600949","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/faun-9780999724767","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}