{"product_id":"the-good-mother-of-marseille-paperback","title":"The Good Mother of Marseille - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristopher X. Shade\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eThe Good Mother of Marseille\u003c\/em\u003e: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A veritable bouillabaisse of a novel, simmering with intrigue and steaming with surprises.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eLorea Canales\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eBecoming Marta\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLos Perros\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable work of imagination, a debut novel that not only introduces us to a gifted writer of fiction, but offers a beguiling glimpse into the zeitgeist of a generation's appetite for the exotic and the mysterious. In the Hemingway tradition, its many linked stories gel into one compelling story of Americans abroad. Shade's sensitivity toward his characters is infectious, and, quite frankly, unforgettable.\" --\u003cstrong\u003ePhilip Schultz\u003c\/strong\u003e, Pulitzer Prize-winning author most recently of \u003cem\u003eLuxury\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Wherewithal: A Novel in Verse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Marseille with its hot dangerous streets, its bars, and beautiful churches becomes a character in this fresh and original novel by Christopher X. Shade. Here we glimpse anew intriguing and moving facets of human nature so skillfully and believably portrayed.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eSheila Kohler\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of 13 books, most recently a memoir, \u003cem\u003eOnce We Were Sisters\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Well-developed characters, finding themselves in a landscape that is both beautiful and troubling, come to Marseille in search of many things--a chance to prove themselves, an adventure, a last hurrah. But what they find within is deeply more meaningful and surprising.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eChantel Acevedo\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Distant Marvels\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Living Infinite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The Good Mother of Marseille is a beautiful and memorable debut, a melancholy tale of both lost and found, a love letter to the night-lights of France, a movable feast for this 21st century.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eScott Cheshire\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eHigh as the Horses' Bridles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMore Praise at christopherxshade.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eOne of Big Other's \"Most Anticipated Small Press Books of 2019\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/strong\u003e: In Christopher X. Shade's \u003cem\u003eThe Good Mother of Marseille\u003c\/em\u003e, it's the summer of 2013, in the year of Marseille's designation as the European Capital of Culture. Readers get a taste of this dangerous, impoverished yet seductive port city of France as they follow the interwoven stories of Americans who have come to wander and sightsee. No mie, an anthropology student, wants to make the gritty graffiti-covered neighborhood of \u003cem\u003eCours Julien\u003c\/em\u003e her home, but she's running out of time, money, and her university sponsor's patience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo mie watches over Corey, from New Jersey, who is an earlier version of her: also an anthropology student, he's just getting started. But what he wants is very different. He searches the Marseille streets for what he needs from someone to love. In the old port, the wife of a small-town Alabama couple presses to see all the sights while her husband is losing his vision to an eye disease. No mie intersects with everyone--has she stolen their passports? A Colorado man with late-stage cancer and fear of the unexpected falls in love with a French woman he meets at a caf  on the old port. In Marseille and then in Paris, a woman helps her journalist husband figure out what is happening in his head as he experiences a peculiar stress disorder. Hovering on the fringe are the Marseillais, the shopkeepers, artists, caf  waiters. Who among them will save No mie?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the rhythm of European street life, each American puts a Marseille experience in the context of their own histories. It's a love letter to the turbulence of Marseille, and to the turbulence to be found under the surface of each of us, the pounding hearts and jarring fears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.41 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52538734051635,"sku":"9781732302525","price":32.92,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WlY5ZzJlenNidVRvdVpIeUE4aDNIdz09.webp?v=1760842691","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-good-mother-of-marseille-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}