{"product_id":"feverland-alex-lemon-9781571313362","title":"Feverland: A Memoir in Shards","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Alex Lemon is a brave, headlong writer, and he captures the life of the body with vivid and memorable intensity.\"--Mark Doty\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrain surgery. Assault weapons in the bed of a pickup truck. Sophia Loren at the Oscars. Rilke, Rodin, and the craters of the moon. Recovery and disintegration. Monkeys stealing an egg outside a temple in Kathmandu. Brushing teeth bloody on long car rides under blue skies. Pain, ours and what we bring to others. Wildfires in southern California. Rats in Texas. Childhood abuse. Dreams of tigers and blackout nights. The sweetness of mangoes. A son born into a shadowy hospital room. Love. Joy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eFeverland\u003c\/em\u003e, Alex Lemon has created a fragmented exploration of what it means to be a man in the tumult of twenty-first-century America--and a harrowing, associative memoir about how we live with the beauties and horrors of our pasts. How to move forward, Lemon asks, when trapped between the demons of one's history and the angels of one's better nature? How to live in kindness--to become a caring partner and parent--when one can muster very little such tenderness for oneself? \u003cem\u003eHow to be here, now? How to be here, good?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eImmersed in darkness but shot through with light, \u003cem\u003eFeverland\u003c\/em\u003e is a thrillingly experimental memoir from one of our most heartfelt and inventive writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alex Lemon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1571313362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781571313362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Milkweed Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/19\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/18\/2017","brand":"Alex Lemon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43980113740031,"sku":"9781571313362","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2b78b8fb-c653-4f31-8afb-404178b5a3b3.jpg?v=1683248473","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/feverland-alex-lemon-9781571313362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}