{"product_id":"glyph","title":"Glyph","description":"\u003ci\u003eGhosts don't exist.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThey don't. End of.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eStory, however.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eIt is haunting.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEverything tells it.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the past and find themselves making up a ghost.\u003cbr\u003e Is it imaginary? Is it real?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Then it all starts again thirty years later when Petra, now estranged from Patch, finds a phantom horse kicking the furniture to pieces in her bedroom.\u003cbr\u003e What to do? She phones her sister.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In a chiaroscuro dance through our increasingly antagonistic era, \u003ci\u003eGlyph\u003c\/i\u003e asks if we're attending to the history that's made us and to the history we're making. A funny, warm and clear-eyed take on where we are now, \u003ci\u003eGlyph\u003c\/i\u003e is about what our imaginations are for and how, in a broken, brutal and divided time, we rekindle care, solidarity, resistance and openness.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e This anti-war novel, Ali Smith's most soulful, playful and vital yet, is a work of lightness that goes deep to counter the forces currently flattening the modern world.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A standalone novel, it's family to \u003ci\u003eGliff\u003c\/i\u003e (2024).","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Glyph","offer_id":45292164055237,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-0-241-66559-6.jpg?v=1762377069","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/glyph","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}