{"product_id":"9781836430193","title":"Eating Ashes","description":"Author: Navarro, Brenda\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781836430193\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 02 Jun 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 208\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Stunning... An energetic and harrowing new voice.' Miriam Toews, author of All My Puny Sorrows\u003cbr\u003eA young man jumps five floors to his death. His sister tries to understand why. A searing novel about abandonment, belonging and migration, from an exciting new Latin American voice.\u003cbr\u003eFive floors, six seconds, a body crashing to the ground. When our narrator's younger brother, Diego, takes his own life, she retreats into memories of the past, asking herself again and again- why? Revisiting their early years in Mexico, their childhood in Spain and the fragmentation and displacement that coloured their adult years, she pieces together a story of alienation and loss, but also of belonging, courage and hope. \u003cbr\u003eNow, she has to return to Mexico with Diego's ashes in hand. She finds a country that looks very different from the one she left behind and asks what it means to return to a home that never felt like one.\u003cbr\u003eEating Ashes is a tender, deeply poignant novel, shot through with flashes of dark humour, from a powerful new Latin American voice.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47509056487582,"sku":"UBD-9781836430193","price":32.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781836430193.jpg?v=1780640774","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781836430193","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}