{"product_id":"scaffolding-9780374615291","title":"Scaffolding","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA novel of Paris, desire, love, psychoanalysis, and the turbulent affairs of two couples across time. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAfter a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work, obsessing instead over a kitchen renovation and befriending a new neighbor--a younger woman called Cl?mentine who has just moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForty years earlier, in the same apartment, Florence and Henry are renovating their kitchen. Florence is finishing her degree in psychology and attending feminist meetings and Jacques Lacan's infamous seminars. She is hoping to conceive their first child, though Henry isn't sure he's ready for fatherhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo couples in two separate but similar times--set against a backdrop of political disappointment and intellectual controversy--face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy. Lauren Elkin's \u003ci\u003eScaffolding\u003c\/i\u003e is about the way our homes hold communal memories of all their inhabitants and their stories; about the bonds we create, and the difficulty of ever fully severing them; about the ways people we've loved live on in us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/17\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374615291\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024 pg. 3\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Lauren Elkin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44493276774581,"sku":"9780374615291","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_bf9f3518-2726-4229-8123-d5e04ac84329.jpg?v=1721747830","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/scaffolding-9780374615291","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}