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Every once in a while a book appears that we know is special, transformative in subtle ways, that will endure. This is Surfacing by @KathleenJamie, a book of quiet penetration, spanning millennia, out on 19th Sept. Here’s five reasons we think so... 
1) The writing is stunning. @Nicklezard wrote in the Guardian, “I wonder if I would actually kill to be able to write, and think, like this”, about Sightlines (Jamie’s last title). Surfacing is even better ...
2) The scope is wide: Jamie carries us from a Yup’ik village in Alaska where hunter-gatherer objects spill from the thawing tundra, to a vast Neolithic site beneath the sand dunes of an Orkney island, to the borders of Tibet and a journey made at the time of Tiananmen Square...
3) Themes are personal without self-absorption. Jamie mines her own family history and memories to explore what connects us to our past. Most movingly, she considers as her father dies and her children leave home, the Surfacing of a former, less tethered, sense of herself...
4) As with all her writing, Jamie looks to the natural world for her markers and guides. Birds, plants, creatures, the palette of the landscape, the shifts in the sky, remain in the warp and weft of her prose...
5) Surfacing offers a profound sense of time passing and of the jeopardy in which both our past and our future are placed. An antidote to all that seems too instant, ephemeral, unroofed...
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