{"product_id":"the-old-drift","title":"The Old Drift","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"section short\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eby Namwali Serpell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section short\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"section short c12 with-top-border article js-read-more\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"js-read-more-content\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOne of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black, white, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass, their lives—their triumphs, errors, losses and hopes—emerge through a panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts, microdrones and viral vaccines, this gripping, unforgettable novel is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders, and a meditation on the slow, grand passage of time.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eRay Bradbury Prize • Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic . . . This is a dazzling book, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Dwight Garner,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA founding epic in the vein of Virgil’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAeneid . . .\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethough\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein its sprawling size, its flavor of picaresque comedy and its fusion of family lore with national politics it more resembles Salman Rushdie’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMidnight’s Children\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e—The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e“A story that intertwines strangers into families, which we'll follow for a century, magic into everyday moments, and the story of a nation, Zambia.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—NPR\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"js-read-more-content\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"js-read-more-content\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45267232424006,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1557\/0897\/files\/OldDrift.png?v=1783021166","url":"https:\/\/www.wildrootsapothecary.com\/products\/the-old-drift","provider":"Wild Roots Apothecary","version":"1.0","type":"link"}