{"product_id":"coelacanth-paperback-1","title":"Coelacanth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePhilip Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDefying putative extinction, this 80,000-word coelacanth conveys the resurrection of a student protest movement in a fictitious island (AuxIndes) off the coast of Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Insular activists - joined by a pair of young Black Americans bearing their own legacies of bondage - work through business and professional channels to manage a vulnerable republic, despite its isolation, poverty, and corruption. Prevailing insular dynamics force the principal characters to readjust their connections with one-another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurrounding them, the ocean environment exemplifies the conduct of elusive communications, to assure survival, and to recombine resourcefully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To The Indies turns on the sensibility of Cynthia Van Zan, product of a once-enslaved Louisiana family and a father descended from West African royalty. A graphic artist with special \"gifts,\" Van Zan enlivens the narrative through innate affinity with creatures of the ocean. Her colleague, Denis Guyane, born in New York of Haitian immigrants, pursues a more terrestrial career as trouble-shooter for their AuxIndien employer, the Fisherman and sometime President Roger Masson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e After a period of enforced isolation, interrelated crises bring the principals together on both predictable and eccentric pathways. These include prospects for a professional reunion of Van Zan and Guyane in Manhattan as the Covid emergency is about to burst.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 372\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 22, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42261777907847,"sku":"9798230967897","price":23.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/78a4b15757919f497331fc040f8f2f5c.webp?v=1736929908","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/coelacanth-paperback-1","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}