{"product_id":"wayward-paperback-3","title":"Wayward - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDana Spiotta\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR - \u003cb\u003eA \"furious and addictive new novel\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) about mothers and daughters, and one woman's midlife reckoning as she flees her suburban life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Exhilarating ... reads like a burning fever dream. A virtuosic, singular and very funny portrait of a woman seeking sanity and purpose in a world gone mad.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSamantha Raymond's life has begun to come apart: her mother is ill, her teenage daughter is increasingly remote, and at fifty-two she finds herself staring into \"the Mids\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003ethat hour of supreme wakefulness between three and four in the morning in which women of a certain age suddenly find themselves contemplating motherhood, mortality, and, in this case, the state of our unraveling nation. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e When she falls in love with a beautiful, decrepit house in a hardscrabble neighborhood in Syracuse, she buys it on a whim and flees her suburban life\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eand her family\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eas she grapples with how to be a wife, a mother, and a daughter, in a country that is coming apart at the seams. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Dana Spiotta's \u003ci\u003eWayward\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunning novel about aging, about the female body, and about female complexity in contemporary America. Probing and provocative, brainy and sensual, it is a testament to our weird times, to reforms and resistance and utopian wishes, and to the beauty of ruins.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDANA SPIOTTA is the author of \u003ci\u003eInnocents and Others\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the St. Francis College Literary Prize and was short-listed for \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize; \u003ci\u003eStone Arabia\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist; \u003ci\u003eEat the Document\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a National Book Award finalist; and \u003ci\u003eLightning Field\u003c\/i\u003e. Spiotta was a Guggenheim Fellow, a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow, and she won the 2008-9 Rome Prize from the American Academy in Rome. In 2017, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded her the John Updike Prize in Literature. Spiotta lives in Syracuse and teaches in the Syracuse University MFA program.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 21, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51766268068128,"sku":"9780593312490","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/10e476d0a8bdb185f82e6b16be788b7b.webp?v=1780288808","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/wayward-paperback-3","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}