{"product_id":"our-life-in-the-forest","title":"Our Life in the Forest - Pre Order - Available Sept 2026","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSynopsis\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this darkly funny novel, where the dystopian visions of Helen DeWitt and Kazuo Ishiguro meet, a woman writes from a forest encampment at the end of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the near future, the unnamed narrator is nearing the end of her life. She's lost an eye, a kidney, and the use of one hand, and knows she won't have time to reread the pages she's writing. Her other half, Marie—known as Sissy—has become entangled in a system that harvests the bodies of the poor to extend the lives of the wealthy. As society fractures and the forest becomes a refuge, the narrator records a story of love, resistance, and survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDarkly comic, unsettling, and deeply humane, \u003cem\u003eOur Life in the Forest\u003c\/em\u003e is Marie Darrieussecq's visionary exploration of complicity, mortality, environmental collapse, and what it means to remain human in an increasingly inhuman world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarie Darrieussecq is a French novelist, translator, and psychoanalyst whose work has been translated into more than thirty languages. Since the international success of her debut novel \u003cem\u003ePig Tales\u003c\/em\u003e (\u003cem\u003eTruismes\u003c\/em\u003e), she has become one of France's most acclaimed contemporary writers. Her fiction explores identity, the body, ecology, memory, and transformation with wit, originality, and emotional depth. \u003cem\u003eOur Life in the Forest\u003c\/em\u003e is translated from the French by Penny Hueston.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTransit Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 11, 2026\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e136\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSubjects\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Fiction · Fiction in Translation · Dystopian Fiction · Speculative Fiction · Climate Fiction · French Literature\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9798893380750\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Old Post Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45223026524342,"sku":"9798893380750","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0731\/2264\/4150\/files\/9798893380750.jpg?v=1782570312","url":"https:\/\/oldpostbookshop.com\/products\/our-life-in-the-forest","provider":"Old Post Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}