{"product_id":"wait-blink-a-perfect-picture-of-inner-life-a-novel-9781250215024","title":"Wait, Blink: A Perfect Picture of Inner Life: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExpansive, intimate, and filled to the brim with delight, Gunnhild Oyehaug's first novel is devoted to the unexpected connections between lonesome individuals, mundane rituals, jellyfish, death, oversized men's shirts, and a thousand other things too astonishing to spoil in this sentence. I truly loved this wide-eyed, all-embracing wonder of a book. --Alexandra Kleeman, author of \u003ci\u003eYou Too Can Have a Body Like Mine\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSigrid is a young literature student trying to find her voice as a writer when she falls in love with an older, established author, whose lifestyle soon overwhelms her values and once-clear vision. Trine has reluctantly become a mother and struggles to create as a performance artist. The aspiring movie director Linnea scouts locations in Copenhagen for a film she will never make. As these characters' stories collide and intersect, they find that dealing with the pressures of their lives also means coming to grips with a world both frightening and joyously ridiculous. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eWait, Blink\u003c\/i\u003e combines wild associations, quotations, coincidences, and other peculiar details into a unique tale that is both humorous and profound. Full of the playfulness that drew acclaim for her story collection \u003ci\u003eKnots\u003c\/i\u003e, Gunnhild  yehaug's \u003ci\u003eWait, Blink\u003c\/i\u003e--her first novel to be translated into English--is a jolt of desire and fantasy, romance and regret: a fable about what it means to own up to the weirdness inside us all.\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 08\/13\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250215024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.10h x 4.40w x 0.90d","brand":"Gunnhild \u0026#216;yehaug","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43378304024757,"sku":"9781250215024","price":14.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_a0b9c35f-ce3a-43db-8eed-f1f6180fd28b.jpg?v=1701752393","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/wait-blink-a-perfect-picture-of-inner-life-a-novel-9781250215024","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}