{"product_id":"zazen-paperback","title":"Zazen - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVanessa Veselka\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the National Book Award longlisted epic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Great Offshore Grounds\u003c\/i\u003e, here is the debut novel that launched her career--a story of activism, police violence, and white guilt in a not so distant dystopian America.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An ambitious encapsulation of our modern times, \u003ci\u003eZazen\u003c\/i\u003e tackles counterculture hipsters, geology, Buddhism, consumerism, terrorism, veganism, family drama, and, above all, love.\" --Judges' Citation, PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe world is on fire, and Della doesn't know what, if anything, she should do about it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe country is poised on the brink of war. Curfews and other restrictions give the police an excuse for violence. Customers at the vaguely vegan cafe where Della is working after dropping out of grad school debate which foreign countries are the best to flee to: Costa Rica? Bali? Della's parents--former revolutionaries--are more excited at the idea of her brother and his Black wife giving them biracial grandbabies than in engaging in any new actions; her nominally activist coworkers are mostly devoted to planning a massive sex party. Della floats between them, lost and numb. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThen a bomb goes off: some shallow place of capitalistic worship demolished. Inspired, for reasons not entirely clear to herself, Della calls in a second--fake--bomb threat. But a bomb goes off there, too, and soon Della finds herself pulled in by a group of people who, for once, are promising to actually do something. No matter the consequences. Prescient when it was first published, Vanessa Veselka's debut novel is even more revolutionary now. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA VINTAGE ORIGINAL.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVanessa Veselka\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Great Offshore Grounds\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Oregon Book Awards' Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and was longlisted for the 2020 National Book Award and the novel \u003ci\u003eZazen\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eTin House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eZYZZYVA\u003c\/i\u003e, and her nonfiction in \u003ci\u003eGQ\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Atavist\u003c\/i\u003e, and was included in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e and the anthology \u003ci\u003eBitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism\u003c\/i\u003e. She has been, at various times, a teenage runaway, a sex worker, a union organizer, an independent record label owner, a train hopper, a waitress, and a mother. She lives in Portland, OR.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 304\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.79 x 7.95 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47395753492658,"sku":"9780593314890","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/3edd9bcd2e3c52ce4d971f81bfaa191b.webp?v=1777991961","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/zazen-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}