{"product_id":"serious-face-essays-hardcover","title":"Serious Face: Essays - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJon Mooallem\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the discovery of the author's face in a century-old photograph to a triple-amputee hospice director working at the border of life and death, here are thirteen hopeful, heartbreaking, and profound essays from \"one of the most intelligent, compassionate, and curious authors working today\" (Elizabeth Gilbert). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeneath the self-assured and serious faces we wear, every human life is full of longing, guesswork, and confusion--a scramble to do the best we can and make everything up as we go along. In these wide-ranging essays, Jon Mooallem chronicles the beauty of our blundering and the inescapability of our imperfections. He investigates the collapse of a multimillion-dollar bird-breeding scam run by an aging farmer known as the Pigeon King, intimately narrates a harrowing escape from California's deadliest wildfire, visits an eccentric Frenchman building a town at what he claims is the center of the world, shadows a man through his first day of freedom after twenty-one years in prison, and more--all with a deep conviction that it's our vulnerability, not our victories, that connect us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMooallem's powers of perception have established him as one of the most distinctive, empathic, and clear-sighted narrative journalists working today. \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e has called his writing \"as much art as it is journalism,\" and Jia Tolentino has praised his \"grace and command.\" In \u003ci\u003eSerious Face, \u003c\/i\u003e Mooallem brings to life the desperate hopes and urgent fears of the people he meets, telling their stories with empathy, humor, insight, and kindness. These elegant, moving essays form an idiosyncratic tapestry of human experience: our audacity and fallibility, our bumbling and goodwill. In moments of calamity and within the extreme absurdity of everyday life, can we learn to love the people we really are, behind the serious faces we show the world?\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJon Mooallem \u003c\/b\u003eis a longtime writer at large for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand a contributor to numerous radio shows and other magazines, including \u003ci\u003eThis American Life \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eWired\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThis Is Chance!, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich was chosen as a best book of the year by BuzzFeed, and \u003ci\u003eWild Ones\u003c\/i\u003e, which was chosen as a notable book of the year by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, \u003c\/i\u003eand Canada's \u003ci\u003eNational Post, \u003c\/i\u003eamong others. He lives on Bainbridge Island, outside Seattle, with his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.3 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766954492192,"sku":"9780525509943","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/9733212a1089e4ff9b0f86abffda4c38.webp?v=1780301699","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/serious-face-essays-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}