{"product_id":"awkward-a-detour-9781934137017","title":"Awkward: A Detour","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mary Cappello 's] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . .  is] revelatory indeed.\" --\u003cb\u003eMARK DOTY\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDog Years: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFire to Fire: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of great cultural criticism and all the emotional pull of memoir. A fascinating book.\" --\u003cb\u003eSARAH WATERS\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Little Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithout awkwardness we would not know grace, stability, or balance. Yet no one before Mary Cappello has turned such a penetrating gaze on this misunderstood condition. Fearlessly exploring the ambiguous borders of identity, she mines her own life journeys--from Russia, to Italy, to the far corners of her heart and the depths of a literary or cinematic text--to decipher the powerful messages that awkwardness can transmit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Cappello\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books of literary nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eAwkward: A Detour\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eCalled Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, \u003c\/i\u003e which won a \u003ci\u003eForeWord Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publishers Prize, and \u003ci\u003eSwallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them.\u003c\/i\u003e Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island and Lucerne-in-Maine, Maine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bellevue Literary Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781934137017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.97h x 6.34w x 0.62d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/18\/2007\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mary Cappello","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41334588047541,"sku":"9781934137017","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_661a50f8-541a-4ae6-aa93-1a219f462dd0.jpg?v=1636433507","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/awkward-a-detour-9781934137017","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}