{"product_id":"peterson-katie-life-in-a-field","title":"Peterson, Katie: Life in a Field","description":"\u003cp\u003ePhotography by Young Suh (Omnidawn, paperback)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: May 1, 2021\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: This is a comedy about climate change, in which a girl and a donkey become friends, then decide to marry time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA lyric fable, \u003ci\u003eLife in a Field\u003c\/i\u003e intersperses Katie Peterson's slow-moving, cinematic, and sensual writing with three folios of photographs by Young Suh. Introspection, wish, dream, and memory mark this tale, which is set in a location resembling twenty-first-century California--with vistas and orchards threatened by drought and fires. This is also a place of enchantment, a fairy-tale landscape where humans and animals live as equals. As the girl and the donkey grow up, they respond to the difficulties of contemporary civilization, asking a question that meets our existential moment: What do you do with the story you didn't wish for? A narrator's voice combines candor with distance, attempting to find a path through our familiar strife, toward a future that feels all but impossible, and into what remains of beauty and pleasure. \u003ci\u003eLife in a Field\u003c\/i\u003e tries to reverse our accelerating destruction of the natural world, reminding us of \"the cold clarity we need to continue on this earth.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44210454200343,"sku":"9781632430908","price":9.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/products\/kp_7d9a2f9f-ad88-4d30-89bf-339eeb779e74.gif?v=1610657269","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/peterson-katie-life-in-a-field","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}