{"product_id":"featherless-9781639821778","title":"Featherless","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlato famously defined a human being as a \"featherless biped.\" It's hard not to sense the ironic humor in this definition, a reminder that, for all our talk about human dignity, our condition is contingent, vulnerable, and at some level even comic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerhaps that's why the writer A.G. Mojtabai-known for her dry, understated, subtly humorous but ultimately honest and courageous depictions of the human condition-chose the name for her latest novel, set in the confines of Shady Rest Home for the Aged.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMojtabai offers us a varied cast of characters at Shady Rest, including: Eli, who fancies himself a ladies man; Elora, anxious about her wayward nephew; the aloof but lonely scholar Wiktor; and Maddie, a bit eccentric, true, but more wise and compassionate than most. At the center of it all is Daniel, an old soul in a young man's body, with a strange gift for caring for the elderly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFeatherless is one of those rare books that brings us news from the final frontier, the end of life. Its unflinching but humane gaze-informed by the author's own experience-serves as a fitting capstone for a literary career of uncommon distinction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Slant Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639821778\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.36lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.34d","brand":"A. G. Mojtabai","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44792579883189,"sku":"9781639821778","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_dd9b2a15-42b6-4153-ace7-9bdad692f0b8.jpg?v=1731426686","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/featherless-9781639821778","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}