{"product_id":"homebound-portia-elan","title":"Homebound [Portia Elan]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGOOD MORNING AMERICA\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e BOOK CLUB PICK • In a dazzling ode to human inventiveness and desire for meaning, four lives are entangled across time by one unfinished story, saved to a floppy disk in the 1980s and destined to ripple across the centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A joy\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eand a hauntingly beautiful exploration of what makes us human. It kept me up all night!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e” —MADELINE MILLER, #1 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Song of Achilles\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A big, bold, ecstatic world—full of heart and wonder.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—RUTH OZEKI, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ebestselling author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eA Tale for the Time Being\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e1983\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Becks is nineteen, blasting her Walkman, and hiding from the fact that her beloved uncle, and the only person who understood her, is dead. Luckily, he left her a half-finished video game to complete—one last collaboration to find her way out of loneliness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e2078.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Dr. Portman is working at the intersection of artificial intelligence and robotics, wrestling with her responsibility to Earth's precarious future. But increasingly, it seems the results of her work may transcend everything she believed to be possible... \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e2586\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. After decades of life on the sea, Yesiko knows a scavenger's work is rife with moral compromise. Yet when a long-lost piece of technology walks aboard her ship, she is set on a path toward a sacrifice even she may be unwilling to make.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLinking these women across the centuries is a chain reaction of love, longing, and creativity that reveals our deep interconnectedness. Clear-eyed and hopeful, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHomebound \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eimagines how future generations will find meaning in the things we leave behind.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-nostyle a-vertical a-spacing-none detail-bullet-list\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eScribner\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMay 5, 2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePaperback : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e304 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e9781668206225\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Prairie Sky General Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46055855849706,"sku":"Simon\u0026Schuster","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/6387\/9980\/files\/81PzZZNOfsL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780173025","url":"https:\/\/prairieskygeneralstore.com\/products\/homebound-portia-elan","provider":"Prairie Sky General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}