{"product_id":"inhale-volume-25","title":"Inhale, Volume 25","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInhale\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel in stories that accumulate until they begin to answer one another: a prologue pulled from static; sutures counted down to the last in triage; permits that rename the living. Here, paperwork decides who moves and who disappears, and those who forge it are not criminals so much as locksmiths: They make the dead mobile so the living can cross.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom Gaza's checkpoints to basements that sweat salt, seawater pools behind the teeth—carried without swallowing, held without speaking. A death certificate is stamped on a body still breathing. Grandma scratches years beneath bowls—1948, 1967, 1987—and lifts one to your ear. In Khan Younis, Shireen stitches; in Shifa, a widow asks for her husband's papers. Forgetting never gets cheaper here. The sea doesn't translate; it transmits. You open—just the mouth—hold the water, unspilled, and inhale.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I devoured \u003ci\u003eInhale\u003c\/i\u003e the same way the characters in war-ravaged Gaza devour pilfered drugs. The prose is reminiscent of Bruno Schultz, the doomed Polish magic realist who was murdered by the Nazis while still a young man. In Gaza the honey tastes of gunpowder because the bees have sipped from bullet holes; you might dream of leaning to retrieve a dropped spoon in an ice cream shop, only to have your head burst into shrapnel. It's a place where sunlight breaks on razor wire like cold splinters of gin, and cemeteries smell of crushed mint. There is a ruthless honesty in these stories, and also a ruthless beauty. I want to press \u003ci\u003eInhale\u003c\/i\u003e into the hands of every reader.\"—Patricia Henley, judge and author of \u003ci\u003eApple \u0026amp; Palm\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eHummingbird House\u003c\/i\u003e (National Book Award Finalist)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57513459646837,"sku":"9798898290160","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9798898290160.jpg?v=1787220215","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/inhale-volume-25","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}