{"product_id":"so-long-9781954245501","title":"So Long","description":"\u003cp\u003e Anticipating and then grieving the death of her father, Jen Levitt's \u003ci\u003eSo Long\u003c\/i\u003e fleshes out a full elegiac register, sitting with the mourning of farewell while holding onto gratitude, remembrance, and a permeating love. \"Soon,\" she says, \"we'll have to find another way to meet, as moonlight \/ makes the river glow.\" In the contrails of bittersweet loss, Levitt's speaker observes all that surrounds her, and the self, too, as a phenomenon in loneliness. In the suburbs, she notes high- school athletes circling \"in their sweat-resistant fabrics,\" \"so natural in their tank tops, those dutiful kids trying to beat time\"; upstate, she finds herself in temple where Broadway music has replaced prayer and discovers \"no promises, \/ but, like hearing a rustle in deep woods \u0026amp; turning to locate its source, the chance for something rare.\" It is this humanistic faith that inverts the title's idiomatic goodbye into a statement of permanence, the truth of our enduring, improbable lives: look at this, she seems to command herself, \"\u0026amp; look at how lucky I've been, for so long.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954245501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.32d","brand":"Jen Levitt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42862815346869,"sku":"9781954245501","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_9e07628e-c116-4dfb-a13d-88c05b3197fd.jpg?v=1683671224","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/so-long-9781954245501","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}