{"product_id":"breakable-you-book-brian-morton-9780151011926","title":"Breakable You","description":"Remarkable . . . Morton] conjures up lives so vivid the reader mourns their passing. \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this heartbreakingly beautiful novel, Brian Morton gives us four complicated, passionate people whose lives are tested by tragedy.\u003ci\u003eBreakable You\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of Maud, a brilliant but fragile graduate student; her father, Adam, a novelist hungry for greater fame; Eleanor, his former wife, a psychologist struggling to reinvent herself in middle age; and Maud s new lover, Samir, an Arab American intellectual in mourning for his lost daughter.A novel that is both clear-eyed and deeply compassionate, \u003ci\u003eBreakable You\u003c\/i\u003e examines what we do when life gives us more than we think we can bear.\u003cbr\u003eA literary theft, a death and the sparking of desire make for a tumultuous year in the lives of four New Yorkers fumbling toward belated self-discovery . . . In this polished, affecting novel, their stories intertwine and uplift: As Maud, the book's tender heart, reflects, striving is 'the law of life.' \u003ci\u003ePeople \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMorton is the rare writer equally invested in people and ideas . . . [He] creates some of the most complex and real female characters of any writer.--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBRIAN MORTON \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of three previous novels, including \u003ci\u003eStarting Out in the Evening, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the Koret Jewish Book Award and was a finalist for the Pen\/Faulkner Award, and \u003ci\u003eA Window Across the River, \u003c\/i\u003e which was a \u003ci\u003eToday \u003c\/i\u003eBook Club selection. He teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and New York University and lives in New York.Reading Group Guide available at www.HarcourtBooks.com.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50423754719505,"sku":"CIN0151011923VG","price":5.78,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0151011923.jpg?v=1786108700","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/breakable-you-book-brian-morton-9780151011926","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}