{"product_id":"natives-and-exotics-book-jane-alison-9780151012015","title":"Natives and Exotics","description":"A kind of family album where, finally, no one is out of place.--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eTransplanted halfway around the globe in 1970, nine-year-old Alice is ravished by the beauty of Ecuador, a country her diplomat parents are helping to despoil. Forty years earlier, her grandmother Violet, a newlywed making a home in the wilds of Australia, confronts troubling traces of her country's past. In his time, Violet's great-great-grandfather George flees violence in Scotland, only to unwittingly destroy the earthly paradise he finds in the Portuguese Azores. \u003ci\u003eNatives and Exotics\u003c\/i\u003e follows these three characters, linked by blood and legacy, in their uneasy affairs with nature as they restlessly search for home. \u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eNatives and Exotics\u003c\/i\u003e, Jane Alison takes us where history books can't or won't go . . . Though set hundreds of years apart, these stories quickly flow into a single narrative powerful enough to show how closely related our familial, political and natural worlds really are. \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVivid and poignant . . . What gives pleasure is how precisely [Alison] sees the fierce beauty of the natural world, as it moves, grows, evolves, both despite and because of the blind interference of humankind. \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eA family's diaspora becomes an intriguing tale told backward . . . Exquisitely observed, wonderfully off the beaten track.--\u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJane Alison\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Love-Artist\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage of the Sea\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Canberra, Australia, she grew up in the foreign service and the United States. She now lives in Germany and teaches in the MFA program at Queens University in Charlotte, North Carolina. \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50927123300625,"sku":"CIN0151012016VG","price":5.68,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51415544889617,"sku":"CIN0151012016G","price":6.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0151012016.jpg?v=1751132897","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/natives-and-exotics-book-jane-alison-9780151012015","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}