{"product_id":"blackouts-9780374293574","title":"Blackouts","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eWe the Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlackouts\u003c\/i\u003e mines lost histories--personal and collective.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly, but who has haunted the edges of his life. Juan Gay--playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized--has a project to pass along to this new narrator. It is inspired by a true artifact of a book, \u003ci\u003eSex Variants: A Study in Homosexual Patterns\u003c\/i\u003e, which contains stories collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. As Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator trade stories--moments of joy and oblivion--and resurrect lost loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by \u003ci\u003eKiss of the Spider Woman\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Pedro Páramo\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVoodoo Macbeth\u003c\/i\u003e, the book at its own center and the woman who created it, oral histories, and many more texts, images, and influences, Justin Torres's \u003ci\u003eBlackouts \u003c\/i\u003eis a work of fiction that sees through the inventions of history and narrative. An extraordinary work of creative imagination, it insists that we look long and steady at the world we have inherited and the world we have made--a world full of ghostly shadows and flashing moments of truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/10\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374293574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2023 pg. 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Justin Torres","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43084092047541,"sku":"9780374293574","price":25.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_aaf74a2c-3b90-44e1-95fa-0e01adc74896.jpg?v=1692110175","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/blackouts-9780374293574","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}