{"product_id":"clean-air-book-andrew-bridges-9781596435766","title":"Clean Air","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn amazing blend of page-turning mystery, important commentary about environmental destruction, and poignant portraiture of maternal love. Sarah Blake is a poet, and it shows in her economical prose, distilled insights, and wonderfully disturbing imagery. --ANGIE KIM, author of Miracle Creek\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The climate apocalypse has come and gone, and in the end it wasn't the temperature climbing or the waters rising. It was the trees. The world became overgrown, creating enough pollen to render the air unbreathable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In the decade since the event known as the Turning, humanity has rebuilt, and Izabel has gotten used to the airtight domes that now contain her life. She raises her young daughter, Cami, and attempts to make peace with her mother's death. She tries hard to be satisfied with this safe, prosperous new world, but instead she just feels stuck. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e And then the peace of her town is shattered. Someone starts slashing through the domes at night, exposing people to the deadly pollen--a serial killer. Almost simultaneously, Cami begins sleep-talking, having whole conversations about the murders that she doesn't remember after she wakes. Izabel becomes fixated on the killer, on both tracking him down and understanding him. What could compel someone to take so many lives after years dedicated to sheer survival, with humanity finally flourishing again? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Suspenseful and startling, but also written with a wry, observant humor, \u003ci\u003eClean Air \u003c\/i\u003eis the second novel from poet Sarah Blake, author of the award-winning literary debut \u003ci\u003eNaamah\u003c\/i\u003e. It will appeal to readers of \u003ci\u003eThe Need\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Leftovers\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFever Dream\u003c\/i\u003e as it probes motherhood, grief, control, and choice. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50205208314129,"sku":"CIN1596435763G","price":14.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51323669709073,"sku":"CIN1596435763VG","price":5.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1596435763.jpg?v=1750926632","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/clean-air-book-andrew-bridges-9781596435766","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}