{"product_id":"9780525573005","title":"Golden Child","description":"\u003cb\u003eA deeply affecting debut novel set in Trinidad, following the lives of a family as they navigate impossible choices about scarcity, loyalty, and love\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE • “\u003ci\u003eGolden Child\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning novel written with force and beauty.  Though true to herself, Adam's work stands tall beside icons of her tradition like V.S. Naipaul.”—Jennifer Clement, author of \u003ci\u003eGun Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRural Trinidad: a brick house on stilts surrounded by bush; a family, quietly surviving, just trying to live a decent life. Clyde, the father, works long, exhausting shifts at the petroleum plant in southern Trinidad; Joy, his wife, looks after the home. Their two sons, thirteen years old, wake early every morning to travel to the capital, Port of Spain, for school. They are twins but nothing alike: Paul has always been considered odd, while Peter is widely believed to be a genius, destined for greatness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Paul goes walking in the bush one afternoon and doesn't come home, Clyde is forced to go looking for him, this child who has caused him endless trouble already, and who he has never really understood. And as the hours turn to days, and Clyde begins to understand Paul’s fate, his world shatters—leaving him faced with a decision no parent should ever have to make.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Like the Trinidadian landscape itself, \u003ci\u003eGolden Child \u003c\/i\u003eis both beautiful and unsettling, a resoundingly human story of aspiration, betrayal, and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eGolden Child\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In fluid and uncluttered prose, \u003ci\u003eGolden Child\u003c\/i\u003e weaves an enveloping portrait of an insular social order in which the claustrophobic support of family and neighbors coexists with an omnipresent threat from the same corners.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[A] powerful debut . . . a devastating family portrait—and a fascinating window into Trinidadian society.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“[An] emotionally potent debut novel . . . with a spare, evocative style, Adam (a Trinidad native) evokes the island’s complexity during the mid-'80s, when the novel is mostly set: the tenuous relationship between Hindus like Clyde’s family and the twins’ Catholic schoolmaster, assassinations and abductions hyped by lurid media headlines, resources that attract carpetbagging oil companies but leave the country largely impoverished.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084746915901,"sku":"9780525573005","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780525573005_p0.jpg?v=1775244108","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9780525573005","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}