{"product_id":"the-unwritten-book-an-investigation-9781250863089","title":"The Unwritten Book: An Investigation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of our most interesting and bold writers . . . [offers] a characteristically wild effort that defies genre distinctions, flits from the profound to the mundane with fierce intelligence and searching restlessness, and at its best, delves deep into the recesses of the human heart with courageous abandon . . . An intoxicating blend of humor and pathos.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e --Priscilla Gilman, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Eerie, profound, and daring, this is a book only the inimitable Hunt could write.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Adrienne Westenfeld, \u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom Samantha Hunt, the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Dark Dark, \u003c\/i\u003e comes \u003ci\u003eThe Unwritten Book\u003c\/i\u003e, her first work of nonfiction, a genre-bending creation that explores the importance of books, the idea of haunting, and messages from beyond \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI carry each book I've ever read with me, just as I carry my dead--those things that aren't really there, those things that shape everything I am. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA genre-bending work of nonfiction, Samantha Hunt's \u003ci\u003eThe Unwritten Book \u003c\/i\u003eexplores ghosts, ghost stories, and haunting, in the broadest sense of each. What is it to be haunted, to be a ghost, to die, to live, to read? Books are ghosts; reading is communion with the dead. Alcohol is a way of communing, too, as well as a way of dying. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach chapter gathers subjects that haunt: dead people, the forest, the towering library of all those books we'll never have time to read or write. Hunt, like a mad crossword puzzler, looks for patterns and clues. Through literary criticism, history, family history, and memoir, inspired by W. G. Sebald, James Joyce, Ali Smith, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and many others, Hunt explores motherhood, hoarding, legacies of addiction, grief, how we insulate ourselves from the past, how we misinterpret the world. Nestled within her inquiry is a very special ghost book, an incomplete manuscript about people who can fly without wings, written by her father and found in his desk just days after he died. What secret messages might his work reveal? What wisdom might she distill from its unfinished pages? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHunt conveys a vivid and grateful life, one that comes from living closer to the dead and shedding fear for wonder. \u003ci\u003eThe Unwritten Book\u003c\/i\u003e revels in the randomness, connectivity, and magic of everyday existence. And at its heart is the immense weight of love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/04\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250863089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d","brand":"Samantha Hunt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729535733941,"sku":"9781250863089","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_6df01f6f-6a0f-465a-98a6-5c8f0dbea3a0.jpg?v=1675803305","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-unwritten-book-an-investigation-9781250863089","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}