{"product_id":"natives-and-exotics","title":"Natives And Exotics","description":"In the manner of W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants, Natives and Exotics follows three characters, linked by blood and legacy, as they wander a world scarred by colonialism.  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTransplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice, the child of diplomats, is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a country her parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier, Alice's newlywed grandmother Violet confronts troubling traces of her country's past as she makes a home in the wilds of Australia. And before that, in early nineteenth-century Scotland, Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees the violence of the Clearances for the Portuguese Azores, unaware that he will have a hand in destroying the earthly paradise there.   \u003cbr\u003e The third novel by the author of the critically acclaimed The Marriage of the Sea and The Love-Artist, Natives and Exotics is a hypnotic meditation on our passionate, uneasy affair with nature, in which we restlessly search for home.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jane Alison","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":55253037842723,"sku":"9780156032476","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/2258\/5123\/files\/9780156032476.jpg?v=1781809473","url":"https:\/\/epicreads.com\/products\/natives-and-exotics","provider":"Epic Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}