{"product_id":"9780811223720","title":"The Trace","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Mexican road novel of love, hate, drugs, and the Mexican Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Trace\u003c\/em\u003e is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered. Driving through the Chihuahua Desert, they retrace the route of nineteenth-century American writer Ambrose Bierce (who disappeared during the Mexican Revolution) and try to piece together their lives after a devastating incident involving their adolescent son. With tenderness and precision, Gander explores the intimacies of their relationship as they travel through Mexican towns, through picturesque canyons and desertcapes, on a journey through the the heart of the Mexican landscape. Taking a shortcut through the brutally hot desert home, their car overheats miles from nowhere, the novel spinning out of control, with devastating consequences. . . . Poet Forrest Gander’s first novel \u003cem\u003eAs a Friend\u003c\/em\u003e was acclaimed as “profound and relentlessly beautiful (Rikki Ducornet). With \u003cem\u003eThe Trace\u003c\/em\u003e, Gander has accomplished another brilliant work, containing unforgettable poetic descriptions of Mexico and a story both violent and tender.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129464996080,"sku":"9780811223720","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811223720_p0.jpg?v=1763739726","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811223720","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}