{"product_id":"after-lives-book-megan-marshall-9780618684182","title":"After Lives","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA moving and penetrating memoir of a life in biography from the Pulitzer Prize winner and “gifted storyteller” (Judith Thurman, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, Julia Ward Howe Award for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMegan Marshall’s innovative books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Peabody Sisters\u003c\/i\u003e and the Pulitzer Prize–winning \u003ci\u003eMargaret Fuller\u003c\/i\u003e, are treasured works of American biography. In the richly absorbing essays of \u003ci\u003eAfter Lives\u003c\/i\u003e, Marshall turns her narrative gift to her own art, life, and the people in it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn each of six essays, Marshall reinvents the personal essay form, as a portal to the past and its lessons for living into the future. The book’s brilliant, assured interplay between memoir and biography places surprising characters on the page, including the twelfth-century Buddhist hermit Kamo no Chomei, a reassuring spiritual presence for Marshall during several otherwise deracinating months in Kyoto. In her stunning coming-of-age tale, “Free for a While,” set in 1970s California, Marshall interweaves the story of her adolescence with that of Black Power martyr Jonathan Jackson, the author’s AP history classmate, gunned down at seventeen in a failed attempt to free his famed older brother George from prison in the case that put Angela Davis on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere too is the author’s passion for the biographical chase, and for the mysteries at its heart. She tells the astonishing story of viewing the disinterred remains of her one-time subject Sophia Peabody Hawthorne, wife of Nathaniel, and their daughter Una, the truths of whose early death Marshall works to reveal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThroughout these finely wrought essays, Marshall, “[at] the front rank of American biographers” (Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), makes palpable her driving impulse to “learn what I could from others: how to live, how not to live, what it means to live.” \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51004915876113,"sku":"NIN9780618684182","price":27.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51739797684497,"sku":"CIN0618684182G","price":5.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53396449067281,"sku":"CIN0618684182VG","price":7.25,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0618684182.jpg?v=1790211849","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/after-lives-book-megan-marshall-9780618684182","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}