{"product_id":"norma-9781778430404","title":"Norma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWidowhood and weirdos, online and off, \u003ci\u003eNORMA\u003c\/i\u003e is so dark it smarts.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt's a terrible freedom to linger unaccounted for.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNorma is waking up and cracking up. Decades of marriage, housekeeping, and family responsibility: buried with her husband Hank. Now, she's free, gorging on an online riot of canceled soap operas, message boards, and grocery store focus groups. Transcribing chatter for fifty cents a minute. It's all of humanity--grim, funny, and desperate--wafting into her world, a world reeking with the funk of old fast food wrappers, cold stale recycled air, and desiccated car upholstery. And one where appropriate boundaries are suddenly slipping too, when a voice from one of her transcripts goes from virtual to IRL and just down the block.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNORMA\u003c\/i\u003e is a tart, unhinged flail into widowhood, the parasocial, and some of the more careworn corners of the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Invisible Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/16\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781778430404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176","brand":"Sarah Mintz","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43644083962037,"sku":"9781778430404","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_6315d449-55f7-4c14-bcc3-f607109db300.jpg?v=1708446639","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/norma-9781778430404","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}