{"product_id":"a-good-day-for-seppuku-kate-braverman-9780872867215","title":"A Good Day for Seppuku: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eHaunting new stories about girls on the brink of adulthood, women on the verge of breakdowns, and families undone by past deceptions.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Kate Braverman is a writer of astonishing versatility and lyricism. Her stories are brilliantly rendered, painfully intimate portraits of individuals who come alive on the page as if illuminated by strobe lighting. With remarkable precision she tracks the restless motions of a mind searching for its reflection in the world--a continuous interrogation of the self that sweeps us along with it, as in a mysterious adventure.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Joyce Carol Oates\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"If fame did not find Braverman when the moment was right, perhaps it will make amends now that the moment is wrong. . . . Braverman excels at flooding readers in images that throb with menace or pleasure, as if descriptive language were a vein into which our most primal fears and desires could be injected.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Katy Waldman, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The book feels timeless, think \u003cem\u003eTransparent\u003c\/em\u003e, sans the trans . . . Kate Braverman, an underground literary icon through decades of razor-sharp writing, returns with a gorgeously observed collection of stories about contemporary Jewish identity. It's profound, realistic, and funny in equal measure.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Canfield, \u003cem\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Braverman daringly, ravishingly, and resoundingly dramatizes the profound consequences of delusions, lies, ignorance, anger, cruelty, poverty, disappointment, conformity, inebriation, and violence with high imagination, sensual precision, cutting humor, and bracing insight.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eDonna Seaman, \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e *Starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Braverman writes forthright but beautiful sentences. Her details are so vivid that they feel like memories . . . \"\u003cstrong\u003e--\u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e, *Starred\/Boxed review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Kate Braverman is an original. Reading her is like hitching a ride on a runaway train, always dangerous, always thrilling, always a knockout. \u003cem\u003eSeppuku\u003c\/em\u003e is all that and more.\"\u003cstrong\u003e--Frederick Barthelme, author of \u003cem\u003eThere Must Be Some Mistake\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Braverman is the godmother of literary bad girls and a connoisseur of the shattered beauty glittering in the wreckage of her characters' lives.\u003cem\u003e A Good Day for Seppuku \u003c\/em\u003ecelebrates the Braverman vision, and frames her legacy.\"\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e--\u003c\/em\u003eJanet Fitch, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution of Marina M.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA thirteen-year-old girl must choose between her mother in Beverly Hills or her pot-growing father in the Allegheny Mountains. Dr. Bernie Roth and his wife Chloe reside in a grand hacienda in La Jolla. Their children are in college, and their disappointments are profound. But Bernie has his doctor's bag of elixirs for the regrets of late middle age. Mrs. Barbara Stein, a high school teacher, looks like she'd sacrifice her life for Emily Dickinson's honor. That's camouflage. Mrs. Stein actually spends summers in the Sisyphean search for her prostitute daughter in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are some of the tales told in Kate Braverman's audacious new story collection. These furious and often hilarious tableaus of American family life remind us of why she has been seducing readers ever since her debut novel \u003cem\u003eLithium for Medea \u003c\/em\u003eshook the literary world nearly forty years ago.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kate Braverman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0872867218\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780872867215\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e City Lights Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/27\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/18\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eForeword\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/26\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2018 pg. 26\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2018 pg. 77","brand":"Kate Braverman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43926706422015,"sku":"9780872867215","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_7f4be3a2-9284-4276-9894-82d9bffadfde.jpg?v=1681084556","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-good-day-for-seppuku-kate-braverman-9780872867215","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}