{"product_id":"the-window-seat-notes-from-a-life-in-motion-hardcover","title":"The Window Seat: Notes from a Life in Motion - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAminatta Forna\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA stunning new collection of essays from the award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eHappiness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Window Seat\u003c\/em\u003e explores border crossings both literal and philosophical, our relationship with the natural world, and the stories that we tell ourselves.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAminatta Forna is one of our most important literary voices, and her novels have won the Windham Campbell Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book. In this elegantly rendered and wide-ranging collection of new and previously published essays, Forna writes intimately about displacement, trauma and memory, love, and how we coexist and encroach on the non-human world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMovement is a constant here. In the title piece, \"The Window Seat,\" she reveals the unexpected enchantments of commercial air travel. In \"Obama and the Renaissance Generation,\" she documents how, despite the narrative of Obama's exceptionalism, his father, like her own, was one of a generation of gifted young Africans who came to the United Kingdom and the United States for education and were expected to build their home countries anew after colonialism. In \"The Last Vet,\" time spent shadowing Dr. Jalloh, the only veterinarian in Sierra Leone, as he works with the street dogs of Freetown, becomes a meditation on what a society's treatment of animals tells us about its principles. In \"Crossroads,\" she examines race in America from an African perspective, and in \"Power Walking\" she describes what it means to walk in the world in a Black woman's body and in \"The Watch\" she explores the raptures of sleep and sleeplessness the world over.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDeeply meditative and written with a wry humor, \u003cem\u003eThe Window Seat\u003c\/em\u003e confirms that Forna is a vital voice in international letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAMINATTA FORNA\u003c\/strong\u003e is also the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eHappiness\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAncestor Stones\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Memory of Love\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Hired Man\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as the memoir \u003cem\u003eThe Devil That Danced on the Water\u003c\/em\u003e. Forna's books have been translated into sixteen languages. Her essays have appeared in \u003cem\u003eGranta\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e. She is currently Director and Lannan Foundation Chair of Poetics at Lannan Center for Poetics and Social Practice at Georgetown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 18, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51768409227552,"sku":"9780802158581","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/07bf9aad38b9ccff889c9d8d5257b4e5_af216fdb-eb73-45ef-bde9-925ef12c3ef5.webp?v=1780328966","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-window-seat-notes-from-a-life-in-motion-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}