{"id":3020,"date":"2022-03-10T12:01:34","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T17:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/index.php\/product\/v-neck-t-shirt\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T23:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T04:18:46","slug":"kern-depart-depart","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/index.php\/product\/kern-depart-depart\/","title":{"rendered":"Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>About the Book<\/h4>\n<p>When an unprecedented hurricane devastates the city of Houston, Noah Mishner finds shelter in the Dallas Mavericks\u2019 basketball arena. Though he finds community among other queer refugees, Noah fears his trans and Jewish identities put him at risk with certain \u201ccapital-T\u201d Texans. His fears take form when he starts seeing visions of his great-grandfather Abe, who fled Nazi Germany as a boy. As the climate crisis intensifies and conditions in the shelter deteriorate, Abe\u2019s ghost grows more powerful. Ultimately, Noah must decide whether he can trust his ancestor\u00a0\u2014 and whether he\u2019s willing to sacrifice his identity and community in order to survive.<\/p>\n<h4>About the Author<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Sim Kern<\/strong>\u00a0is an environmental journalist and speculative fiction writer, exploring intersections of climate change, queerness, and social justice. You can find links to all their stories at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/simkern.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"simkern.com (opens in a new tab)\">simkern.com<\/a>\u00a0and follow them on Twitter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sim_kern\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"@sim_kern (opens in a new tab)\">@sim_kern<\/a>, on Instagram\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sim_bookstagrams_badly\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"@Sim_bookstagrams_badly (opens in a new tab)\">@Sim_bookstagrams_badly<\/a>, and on their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC_GKrR9P-1KNi0B-0MrP6pA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"YouTube channel (opens in a new tab)\">YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h5>Learn More<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/index.php\/depart-depart-excerpt\/\">Read an excerpt<\/a> from <em>Depart, Depart!<\/em><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stelliform.press\/index.php\/praise-for-sim-kerns-depart-depart\/\">Read praise<\/a> for <em>Depart, Depart!<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Also Available from:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Your local independent bookstore<\/li>\n<li>Bookshop.org (<a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/books\/depart-depart\/9781777091705\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Weightless Books Ebooks (<a href=\"https:\/\/weightlessbooks.com\/format\/depart-depart\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Barnes and Noble (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/depart-depart-sim-kern\/1136985364\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Alibris (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.alibris.co.uk\/Depart-Depart-Sim-Kern\/book\/47582894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Amazon.com (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Depart-Sim-Kern\/dp\/1777091705\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>) | Amazon.ca (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Depart-Sim-Kern\/dp\/1777091705\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"link (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>) | Amazon.co.uk (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Depart-Sim-Kern-ebook\/dp\/B088B1YK7C\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">link<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An award-nominated novella about finding and holding onto identity in the face of disaster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/otherwiseaward.org\/2021\/09\/oghenechovwe-donald-ekpeki-wins-2020-otherwise-award-for-ife-iyoku-the-tale-of-imadeyunuagbon-honor-list-announced\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"An Otherwise Award (opens in a new tab)\">An Otherwise Award<\/a>\u00a0(formerly the Tiptree Award) Honor List Book<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cWith high stakes and a solid emotional core, and a perfect balance of speculation and an all-too-real vision of climate apocalypse, Kern shows the necessity of compassion, empathy, and community in the face of crisis.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> starred review<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cThis book is a ghost story,\u00a0but it\u2019s a love story too: to the queer community, to those we\u2019ve lost, and all we stand to lose if we don\u2019t take drastic action. Kern\u2019s prose is tremendously effective and will both break your heart and offer hope.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 <em>Chicago Review of Books<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 12px;\">Customers outside of CA\/US: due to supply chain issues, worldwide shipping of print books is currently slow and expensive. We recommend shopping with your local indie bookstore. If you do order a print book from us, it will be shipped from the closest print facility to you and will therefore be printed on standard paper and will not include the goodies we send with CA\/US orders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0},"product_cat":[60,70,45,55,48],"product_tag":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Depart, Depart! by Sim Kern &#8902; Stelliform Press<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Learn about Sim Kern&#039;s novella, DEPART, DEPART! 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