{"product_id":"book-ixpb","title":"Shanghailanders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA dazzling and ambitious debut novel that follows a cosmopolitan Shanghai household backward in time-beginning in 2040 and moving through our present and the recent past-exploring their secrets, their losses, and the ways a family makes and remakes itself across the years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e2040: Wealthy real estate investor Leo Yang-handsome, distinguished, a real Shanghai man-is on the train back to the city after seeing his family off at the airport. His sophisticated Japanese-French wife, Eko, and their two eldest children, Yumi and Yoko, are headed for Boston, though one daughter's revelation will soon reroute them to Paris. 2039: Kiko, their youngest daughter and an aspiring actress, decides to pursue fame at any cost, like her icon Marilyn Monroe. 2038: Yumi comes to Yoko in need, after a college-dorm situation at Harvard goes disastrously wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the years rewind to 2014, \u003cem\u003eShanghailanders\u003c\/em\u003e brings readers into the shared and separate lives of the Yang family parent by parent, daughter by daughter, and through the eyes of the people in their orbit-a nanny from the provinces, a private driver with a penchant for danger, and a grandmother whose memories of the past echo the present. We glimpse a future where the city's waters rise and the specter of apocalypse is never far off. But in Juli Min's hands, we also see that whatever may change, universal constants remain: love is complex, life is not fair, and family will always be stubbornly connected by blood, secrets, and longing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrilliantly constructed and achingly resonant, \u003cem\u003eShanghailanders\u003c\/em\u003e is an unforgettable exploration of marriage, relationships, and the layered experience of time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"INAudio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49400351785264,"sku":"BDixpb","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/ixpb-Square-cover.jpg?v=1773604885","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ixpb","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}