{"product_id":"homebound","title":"Homebound","description":"\u003ch4\u003ePortia Elan | Paperback | May 2026\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eImmersive, open-hearted speculative fiction debut that connects an irresistible cast of characters across six hundred years – for fans of Gabrielle Zevin, Kaliane Bradley, Emily St John Mandel, David Mitchell\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e'A work of joyous and serious invention' KALIANE BRADLEY\u003cbr\u003e'Gripping... hauntingly beautiful' MADELINE MILLER\u003cbr\u003e'A big, bold, ecstatic world – full of heart and wonder' RUTH OZEKI\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSix hundred years. Five interlocking lives.\u003cbr\u003eAn immersive, open-hearted exploration of the many paths that can lead us home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIt’s 1983 and Becks can’t wait to get the hell out of Cincinnati. But for now she has work to do: her programmer uncle, the only person who understood her, has left her a half-finished game to complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eThe game will outlast Becks by centuries and shape the lives of a scientist, an astronaut and a pirate captain in ways she cannot imagine. It will connect these four pioneering women across centuries, vast oceans and far-distant planets and introduce them to a remarkable robot destined to gather together this disparate crew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eHomebound\u003c\/i\u003e is a coming-out and coming-of-age story, a wild and precarious sea adventure, a space odyssey. As it slips through time, loss, creativity, found family, it journeys deep into humanity’s future and capacity for love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e-------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor Info\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003ePortia Elan\u003c\/b\u003e studied history at Stanford University and earned an MFA from the University of Victoria before returning to California, where she has worked as a waitress, bookseller, teacher and public librarian. She was a 2016 Lambda Literary Fellow and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her wife and an abundance of cats. \u003ci\u003eHomebound \u003c\/i\u003eis her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"booxies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50683023196327,"sku":null,"price":34.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0507\/1523\/0375\/files\/homebound.jpg?v=1780453387","url":"https:\/\/booxies.com\/products\/homebound","provider":"booxies","version":"1.0","type":"link"}