{"product_id":"witness-stories-9780374607036","title":"Witness: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom National Book Award finalist Jamel Brinkley, \u003ci\u003eWitness \u003c\/i\u003eis an elegant, insistent narrative of actions taken and not taken. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat does it mean to take action? To bear witness? What does it cost? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn these ten stories, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City, a range of characters--from children to grandmothers to ghosts--live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect, to remember, to stand up for, and to really see each other, they often fall short, and the structures they build around these ambitions and failures shape not only their own futures but the legacies and prospects of their families and their city. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn its portraits of families and friendships lost and found, the paradox of intimacy, the long shadow of grief, the meaning of home, \u003ci\u003eWitness\u003c\/i\u003e enacts its own testimony. Here is a world where fortunes can be made and stolen in just a few generations, where strangers might sometimes show kindness while those we trust--doctors, employers, siblings--too often turn away, where joy comes in snatches: flowers on a windowsill, dancing in the street, glimpsing your purpose, change on the horizon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith prose as upendingly beautiful as it is artfully, seamlessly crafted, Jamel Brinkley offers nothing less than the full scope of life and death and change in the great, unending drama of the city.\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 08\/01\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374607036\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\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 Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2023 pg. 5\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jamel Brinkley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42896106651829,"sku":"9780374607036","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_0cda01f7-c4f1-4b2b-9c45-0dda3eaf60a5.jpg?v=1686099692","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/witness-stories-9780374607036","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}