{"product_id":"particulate-matter","title":"Particulate Matter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn concise and distilled prose, Lemus presents a collection of still lifes, landscapes, and portraits of a challenging year that threatened all she loved most.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere are only a few words per page in \u003ci\u003eParticulate Matter\u003c\/i\u003e, but that doesn't actually matter. The words Felicia Luna Lemus does carefully choose serve to paint a brilliant picture of her marriage, of a Los Angeles covered in ash, of dashed hopes and new beginnings.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGood Morning America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA love story that's profoundly rooted in the emotional, geographical, and sociopolitical terrain of today...Like song lyrics or snapshots,  Lemus's] wisps and fragments of language take on a coded and otherworldly atmosphere, one that conveys wonder and dread almost subliminally...\u003ci\u003eParticulate Matter\u003c\/i\u003e is a moving example of how to write about climate change, not didactically, but with the deep impact of both personal loss and literary elegance.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA tiny, powerful flame of a book. Lemus' writing lands like sparks and ash, fragmented and tinged with grief...\u003ci\u003eParticulate Matter\u003c\/i\u003e is...an exploration of the simultaneity of delight, yearning, grief and confusion of being in love with a person and a place. Of being alive at all.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLemus has a particular talent for engaging the deepest and most complex parts of the self with the simplest turn of phrase. Detailing the toughest year of her life, she uncovers meaning in the ordinary and the terrifying.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMs. Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat distinguishes Lemus's book...is how the nightmare lived by one California couple became, in the summer of 2020, the nightmare lived by much of the West Coast. This makes \u003ci\u003eParticulate Matter\u003c\/i\u003e not just a memoir but also an oracle, foreseeing the present as we repeat, en masse, a similar ordeal, separated from loved ones and watching the sky rain apocalyptic ash, telling ourselves, as Lemus does, 'I almost believe this...will end someday.'\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlta Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unforgettable meditation on  Felicia Luna Lemus's] experiences...Lemus bears an unmatched precision of the craft. This succinct mic drop of a personal story begs to be read over and over again.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith playful and warm prose, Lemus takes readers into the most difficult year of her life and marriage. Set in Los Angeles, it chronicles her  spouse's] sudden and serious adult-onset asthma, and the literal and figurative fires that raged that year over their lives.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Akashic Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39328642105444,"sku":"9781617758416","price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/suomalainen-test.myshopify.com\/products\/particulate-matter","provider":"Suomalainen Test","version":"1.0","type":"link"}