{"product_id":"gaining-ground-9780571399888","title":"Gaining Ground","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/em\u003e \"Need to Read\" Novel of the Summer \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eUnearthed after half a century, this radical portrait of a woman who leaves her family to live alone in a woodland cabin will pierce the heart of anybody who has ever wanted to escape.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An intricately, perfectly mapped journey into self-liberation. It ventures the question: how to live with, rather than against, oneself - an enormous, shimmering question that now lives inside me. I think it will for the rest of my days.\" --Samantha Harvey, author of \u003ci\u003eOrbital\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A modern masterpiece: proactive, radical and deeply moving on motherhood and how we choose to build our lives.\"--Doireann ní Ghríofa, author of \u003cem\u003eA Ghost in the Throat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a propulsive meditation on what we want and why we want it...I couldn't put it down.--Emily Temple, \u003cem\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI swear I loved them all, and I did the best I could. And then I left them, left all of it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAbra is a wife and mother living a suburban dream--until one day, she walks away. In a woodland cabin, her new life alone begins. There are no mirrors, no clocks, no memories: just the squirrels breathing in the forest, and the silence of vegetables growing. Years later, a young woman arrives, and the past-flashes begin. Daughter? A strange word. Is this her? And what will this mean?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGaining Ground\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published as \u003cem\u003eAbra\u003c\/em\u003e in North America, is a both a radical meditation on living on your own terms and an exquisite work of art. It calls to anybody who has ever wanted to escape--who has asked what it costs to be wild, to be sane, to be free.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Faber \u0026amp; Faber\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/25\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780571399888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208","brand":"Joan Barfoot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52750216396981,"sku":"9780571399888","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/gaining-ground-9780571399888","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}