{"product_id":"landslide-minna-proctor-9781936787616","title":"Landslide: True Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eLandslide\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare book that somehow succeeds in being both knowing and open-hearted, both formally sly and emotionally direct. Its timeless subjects--grief, storytelling, the giving up of childish things--are rendered in ways that are as movingly honest as they are probing and unfamiliar. A swift, compelling read.\" --Adam Haslett, author of \u003ci\u003eImagine Me Gone\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMinna Zallman Proctor's \u003ci\u003eLandslide\u003c\/i\u003e is a captivating collection of interconnected personal essays. These \"true stories\" explore the author's complicated relationship with her mother--who was diagnosed with cancer at age fifty-seven and died fifteen years later--and the ways in which their connection was long the \"prime mover\" of Proctor's life, the subtle force coursing beneath her adulthood. As such, these vibrant essays also narrate the trials and triumphs of Proctor's own life--shifting between America and Italy (and loving \"being a foreigner, the constant sense of unfamiliarity that supplanted all of my expectations and disappointments\"), her bumpy first marriage, the profound pleasure she takes in motherhood, and the confounding experience of trying to arrange a Jewish burial for her \"Jewish, not quite Jewish\" mother. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProctor has an integrity and humor that is never extinguished despite life's mounting difficulties. She also slyly questions her own narrative throughout. \"Not having told this story before means I never fixed many details in my memory,\" she writes. \"[I] have to rely on flashes, the transparent stills that hang in my mind, made of smell, the way the light casts, the wind on skin.\" The essays in this book are a sharply intelligent exploration of what happens when death and divorce unmoor you from certainties, and about the unreliable stories we tell ourselves, and others, in order to live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Minna Proctor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 193678761X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781936787616\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Catapult\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 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/29\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2017 pg. 30\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/06\/2017","brand":"Minna Proctor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43978847584511,"sku":"9781936787616","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b5cd7d5d-d829-401c-99ba-f28a90533e04.jpg?v=1683243262","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/landslide-minna-proctor-9781936787616","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}