{"product_id":"lessons-in-attention-isbn-9781638935193","title":"Lessons in Attention","description":"\u003cb\u003eJimin Kang’s stunning debut novel about grief, faith, and what it means to belong to a place and other people\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Toby Burton, an Oxford-born philosophy student, goes missing on a research trip in Brazil, his friend Lua Oliveira—a Brazilian translator recently moved to England from America—is forced to confront her involvement in his disappearance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Lua’s Korean American ex-boyfriend Elias arrives in Oxford to support the search, Lua begrudgingly enlists the help not only of the local Quaker community but her estranged mother, a retired diplomat-turned-evangelical Christian in São Paulo.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLessons in Attention\u003c\/i\u003e explores themes of faith, belonging, translation, and the meaning of attention, raising the question of how thoroughly we know the people we love—if we choose to see them fully at all.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eLessons in Attention\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A seductive voice that knows all too well the foibles of the human heart.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e —\u003c\/i\u003eLedia Xhoga, Booker Prize-longlisted author of \u003ci\u003eMisinterpretation\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jimin Kang’s\u003ci\u003e Lessons in Attention \u003c\/i\u003eis an ambitious debut. Kang reckons with translanguaging and the pressures of a post-multicultural world, asking what it means to be legible—what happens when the self cannot be translated in the spaces that matter most. Attuned to the frictions of migration and translation shaping this generation, the novel reveals that language, and people, are never lost—only waiting to be found again.” \u003cb\u003e—E. J. Koh, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Liberators\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Magical Language of Others\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJimin Kang\u003c\/b\u003e is a writer, journalist, and scholar. Born in Seoul and raised in Hong Kong, she has also lived in Brazil, the United Kingdom, and the United States, where she is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature as a Knight-Hennessy scholar at Stanford. Her writing—ranging from fiction and essays to reviews and reportage—has appeared in publications including \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kenyon Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eWasafiri\u003c\/i\u003e, where she was a finalist for the 2022 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize. \u003ci\u003eLessons in Attention\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48532163789029,"sku":"NP9781638935193","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781638935193.jpg?v=1773182898","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/lessons-in-attention-isbn-9781638935193","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}