{"product_id":"coelacanth-paperback","title":"Coelacanth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDefying putative extinction, this 80,000-word coelacanth conveys the resurrection of a student protest movement in a fictitious island (AuxIndes) off the coast of Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Insular activists - joined by a pair of young Black Americans bearing their own legacies of bondage - work through business and professional channels to manage a vulnerable republic, despite its isolation, poverty, and corruption. Prevailing insular dynamics force the principal characters to readjust their connections with one-another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSurrounding them, the ocean environment exemplifies the conduct of elusive communications, to assure survival, and to recombine resourcefully.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e To The Indies turns on the sensibility of Cynthia Van Zan, product of a once-enslaved Louisiana family and a father descended from West African royalty. A graphic artist with special \"gifts,\" Van Zan enlivens the narrative through innate affinity with creatures of the ocean. Her colleague, Denis Guyane, born in New York of Haitian immigrants, pursues a more terrestrial career as trouble-shooter for their AuxIndien employer, the Fisherman and sometime President Roger Masson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e After a period of enforced isolation, interrelated crises bring the principals together on both predictable and eccentric pathways. These include prospects for a professional reunion of Van Zan and Guyane in Manhattan as the Covid emergency is about to burst.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68325871452383,"sku":"9798230967897","price":23.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/IeQpFueKyH9798230967897.webp?v=1793184712","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/coelacanth-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}