{"product_id":"memories-of-the-future-9781982102845","title":"Memories of the Future","description":"\u003cb\u003eA provocative, exuberant novel about time, memory, desire, and the imagination from the internationally bestselling and prizewinning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Blazing World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of a young Midwestern woman's first year in New York City in the late 1970s and her obsession with her mysterious neighbor, Lucy Brite.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs she listens to Lucy through the thin walls of her dilapidated building, S.H., aka \"Minnesota,\" transcribes her neighbor's bizarre and increasingly ominous monologues in a notebook, along with sundry other adventures, until one frightening night when Lucy bursts into her apartment on a rescue mission. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForty years later, S.H., now a veteran author, discovers her old notebook, as well as early drafts of a never-completed novel while moving her aging mother from one facility to another. Ingeniously juxtaposing the various texts, S.H. measures what she remembers against what she wrote that year and has since forgotten to create a dialogue between selves across decades. The encounter both collapses time and reframes its meanings in the present. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElaborately structured, intellectually rigorous, urgently paced, poignant, and often wildly funny, \u003ci\u003eMemories of the Future\u003c\/i\u003e brings together themes that have made Hustvedt among the most celebrated novelists working today: the fallibility of memory; gender mutability; the violence of patriarchy; the vagaries of perception; the ambiguous borders between sensation and thought, sanity and madness; and our dependence on primal drives such as sex, love, hunger, and rage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982102845\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Siri Hustvedt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36674210037916,"sku":"9781982102845","price":17.85,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_93accfbf-9e4f-462b-b52a-530507d06765.jpg?v=1603931557","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/memories-of-the-future-9781982102845","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}