{"product_id":"apsara-engine","title":"Apsara Engine","description":"\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2020 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Graphic Novel\/Comics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 2021 Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Comics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the 2021 Ferro-Grumley Literary Award for LGBTQ Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe eight delightfully eerie stories in Apsara Engine are a subtle intervention into everyday reality. A woman drowns herself in a past affair, a tourist chases another guest into an unforeseen past, and a nonbinary academic researches postcolonial cartography. Imagining diverse futures and rewriting old mythologies, these comics delve into strange architectures, fetishism, and heartbreak.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePainted in rich, sepia-toned watercolors, Apsara Engine is Bishakh Som's highly anticipated debut work of fiction. Showcasing a series of fraught, darkly humorous, and seemingly alien worlds—which ring all too familiar—Som captures the weight of twenty-first-century life as we hurl ourselves forward into the unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An astonishing collection of stories that expand and pulse into galaxy-sized moments of strangeness and wonder.\" —Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Som has created a collection of short stories that dance between genres and identities, moving from incisive descriptions of modern social realities to poetic ruminations on the future. This anthology by an up-and-coming comics superstar, which centers queer and trans South Asian narratives, is precisely what we need right now.” —Them\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Long Live the Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45026868166722,"sku":"9781936932818","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0613\/8101\/7666\/files\/9781936932818.jpg?v=1787337849","url":"https:\/\/becksbooksmpls.com\/products\/apsara-engine","provider":"Long Live the Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}