{"product_id":"9780802163462","title":"In Ascension","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing novel about a young microbiologist\ninvestigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a\njourney that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage\nof a single human life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eLeigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an\nescape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the\nundersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the\nglobe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic\nocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's\nfirst life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we\nknow about our own beginnings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\nHer discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space\nagency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic\ntrench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each\npiece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows\nthat to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining\nmother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with\nher family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\nExploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve\nfor the stars, \u003ci\u003eIn Ascension\u003c\/i\u003e is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive\nepic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence,\nlooks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows\nhow - no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope - we\nwill always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Martin MacInnes","offers":[{"title":"Grove\/Atlantic |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2024-03-08","offer_id":44413975986431,"sku":"9780802163462","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_5a97f06e-1c5b-4de2-a3c1-7076edb6c1f6.jpg?v=1697657565","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9780802163462","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}