{"product_id":"ongoingness-the-end-of-a-diary-9781555977658","title":"Ongoingness: The End of a Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\" Manguso] has written the memoir we didn't realize we needed.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. \"I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,\" she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary--it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Bold, elegant, and honest . . . \u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e reads variously as an addict's testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Manguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . . . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read.\" --Maria Popova, \u003ci\u003e Brain Pickings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555977658\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.20d","brand":"Sarah Manguso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36659649544348,"sku":"9781555977658","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a41a2285-2458-417a-bfe0-6bd19c8766ef.jpg?v=1603895200","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/ongoingness-the-end-of-a-diary-9781555977658","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}