{"product_id":"living-without-shadows-9781977258793","title":"Living Without Shadows","description":"\u003cp\u003eTHE Madam is reaching out to press the bell next to her bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe doesn't know who will answer the bell, or if it will be answered at all. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the bell is answered she will know it is not a Thursday. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the bell is not answered she will know it is probably Thursday.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut she won't know what she and her family will eat that night, or whether she will spend another week looking for a new maid.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf the bell is not answered, perhaps she has failed, again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn that moment, that moment of anticipation as the Madam reaches out for the bell, a cusp is formed at the junction of her present and her past. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Living without Shadows' is the record of that moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe moment between the boy and the worker in the trench.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe knife at the throat of the brother.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe waiting at the bottom of the kitchen stairs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe moment of the revolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe moment before she screams.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe moment before unconsciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe moment before death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the button engages.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore the circuit is complete, the lives of The Madam, her husband, her children and the servants are revealed. Her immigrant family passes from the pogroms of early twentieth century Eastern Europe to Apartheid South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe intimate moments of the Madams innocent desires and hopes are laid bare in the bathtub. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe perversions of morality, compromise and the victimization of one by the other fester as the family endures the dilemmas and poses of personal success and failure in the face of Fascism and Zionism, depression, misogyny and megalomania. Each reaches to find the equation that will balance betrayal and delusion with the quest for respite, reconciliation and acceptance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Outskirts Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/16\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781977258793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 276\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d","brand":"Sherwin Mark","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43704994136245,"sku":"9781977258793","price":42.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bda2fa7a-e7ed-489b-a9ea-bfc09b09d6b4.jpg?v=1709652639","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/living-without-shadows-9781977258793","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}