{"product_id":"the-apartment-on-calle-uruguay-9781646221745","title":"The Apartment on Calle Uruguay","description":"\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the 2023 Joyce Carol Oates Prize \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA haunting new novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eVengeance\u003c\/i\u003e in which a chance encounter between a blocked painter and a journalist leads to a complicated romance that reveals their buried histories and vulnerabilities against the backdrops of an America in chaos and Mexico. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning in the first summer of the post-Obama world, Zachary Lazar's bewitching and masterful new novel tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York. Bell has always felt marked by his foreignness, having emigrated to the U.S. as a child, and has come to believe that \"words like 'identity' and 'American' are somehow very meaningful and very meaningless at the same time.\" He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods, \"a rural nowhere...that sometimes held more meaning for me in its silence than human language.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to \"reinvent herself as the kind of person she'd been before\" the world she knew disappeared. A complicated romance develops that gradually reveals their buried histories--from the death of Bell's former partner, Malika Jordan, a fellow artist, to the prison farm where he visits Malika's incarcerated brother Jesse, to Mexico City, where Ana's exiled family now lives. All of them have faced the same problem: how to build a new life once the idea you've had of \"home\" vanishes or becomes unrecognizable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Apartment on Calle Uruguay \u003c\/i\u003eis a haunting exploration of love, art, and the cost of transformation. It lays out a fiercely intentional and introspective way of living in an unjust world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/28\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646221745\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Zachary Lazar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42589511680181,"sku":"9781646221745","price":14.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_95e53417-6c78-40d4-96d7-bb21b7337bc0.jpg?v=1673326299","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-apartment-on-calle-uruguay-9781646221745","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}