{"product_id":"9780811223713","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW The Trace by Forrest Gander","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 08\/05\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Trace 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 As a Friend was acclaimed as \"profound and relentlessly beautiful (Rikki Ducornet). With The Trace, Gander has accomplished another brilliant work, containing unforgettable? poetic descriptions of Mexico and a story both violent and tender. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56419612754293,"sku":"9780811223713","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780811223713.jpg?v=1764599264","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9780811223713","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}