{"product_id":"ibis","title":"Ibis","description":"\u003cb\u003eA bold, witty, magical new voice in fiction, Justin Haynes weaves a cross-generational Caribbean story of migration, superstition, and a search for family in the novel \u003ci\u003eIbis\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This brilliant, shape-shifting novel teems with charms and curses, stunning disasters and startling moments of grace.\" \u003cb\u003e--Jenny Offill, author of \u003ci\u003eDept. of Speculation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWeather\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Justin Haynes proves himself an absolute alchemist of fiction . . . This is a stunning debut as witty as is it is rapturous.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e―\u003c\/i\u003eJericho Brown\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003eMacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of\u003ci\u003e The Tradition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Evoking the themes of Ovid, the language of Toni Morrison, and the genre-blending of Octavia Butler, Haynes scales the heights of his ambition. This soaring work is not to be missed.\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred Review\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e There is bad luck in New Felicity. The people of the small coastal village have taken in Milagros, an 11-year-old Venezuelan refugee, just as Trinidad's government has begun cracking down on undocumented migrants--and now an American journalist has come to town asking questions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e New Felicity's superstitious fishermen fear the worst, certain they've brought bad luck on the village by killing a local witch who had herself murdered two villagers the year before. The town has been plagued since her death by alarming visits from her supernatural mother, as well as by a mysterious profusion of scarlet ibis birds. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Skittish that the reporter's story will bring down the wrath of the ministry of national security, the fishermen take things into their own hands. From there, we go backward and forward in time--from the town's early days, when it was the site of a sugar plantation, to Milagros's adulthood as she searches for her mother across the Americas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In between, through the voices of a chorus of narrators, we glimpse moments from various villagers' lives, each one setting into motion events that will reverberate outwards across the novel and shape Milagros's fate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With kinetic, absorbing language and a powerful sense of voice, \u003ci\u003eIbis\u003c\/i\u003e meditates on the bond between mothers and daughters, both highlighting the migrant crisis that troubles the contemporary world and offering a moving exploration of how to square where we come from with who we become.","brand":"Justin Haynes","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46333573726444,"sku":"9781419772771","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781419772771.jpg?v=1743595745","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/ibis","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}