{"product_id":"when-i-open-the-shop","title":"When I Open the Shop","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn his small noodle shop in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, a young chef obsessively juliennes carrots. Nothing is going according to plan: the bills are piling up, his mother is dead, and there are strangers in his kitchen. The ancestors are watching closely. Told through a series of brilliant interludes and jump cuts, When I open the shop is sometimes blackly funny, sometimes angry and sometimes lyrical, and sometimes – as a car soars off the road on a horror road trip to the Wairarapa – it takes flight into surrealism. A glimpse into immigrant life in Aotearoa, this is a highly entertaining, surprising and poignant debut novel about grief, struggle and community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Upstart","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45517663863007,"sku":"9781776921300","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9781776921300.jpg?v=1744081913","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/when-i-open-the-shop","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}