{"product_id":"by-the-time-you-read-yannick-murphy-9781573661898","title":"By the Time You Read This: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF FC2's CATHERINE DOCTOROW INNOVATIVE FICTION PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA gathering of luminescent stories that illustrates how fraught and contingent the simplest of lives can be, and the often unexpected means available to each of us for our own salvation\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The truths revealed and the lives upended in the 13 stories that make up Yannick Murphy's \u003ci\u003eBy the Time You Read This\u003c\/i\u003e are at once singularly foreign and uncannily familiar. A wife pens a series of suicide notes to her family that verge on the comic, hovering between the tyrannical and the absurd. A mother obsesses over what her child eats. A young girl left with caretakers in New York draws on her potent imagination with consequences in real life that are both liberating and disastrous. In a college application essay a young woman finally begins to make sense of the troubling vicissitudes of her existence. A young French girl departs for America with her reprehensible beau to find she's as much a stranger to herself abroad as she was at home. As with her previous novels and story collections, Murphy's keen rendering of these disparate, complex lives illuminate in ways both quiet and startling our capacity for deliverance and devastation through daring acts of self-invention. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yannick Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573661899\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573661898\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e F2c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 254\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.59w x 0.75d","brand":"Yannick Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996003827967,"sku":"9781573661898","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7477937a-d1fd-477b-8d9a-1b614a7488f6.jpg?v=1683339132","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/by-the-time-you-read-yannick-murphy-9781573661898","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}