{"product_id":"out-of-the-girls-room-thisbe-nissen-9780877456919","title":"Out of the Girls' Room and Into the Night","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut of the Girls' Room and into the Night\u003c\/i\u003e is a spirited, offbeat collection of stories, elongated riffs on that thing we call ...love. All manner of love stories: thwarted love stories, imaginary love stories, love stories offhand and obsessive, philosophical love stories, erudite and amusing love stories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"People don't meet because they both like Burmese food,\" says one character, \"or because someone's sister has a friend who's single and new in town, or because Billy's nose happened to crook just slightly to the left at an angle that made me want to weep...People don't fall in love with each other ...they just fall \u003ci\u003einto\u003c\/i\u003e love.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEveryone does it: women of fierce independence, men of thin character, rambling Deadheads, gay teenage girls, despondent Peace Corps volunteers, anorexic Broadway theatre dancers, the eager, the grieving, the uncommunicative. Even the confused do it. And they don't just fall in love with each other--they fall in love with certain moments and familiar places, with things as ephemeral as gestures and as evanescent as sunlight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eQuirky, real, idealistic, deluded, bohemian, and true, these are people who can--and often do--fall in love with a pair of ears, August afternoons, saucers of vitamins, New Age carpenters, and dead bumblebees. And if there's something they can teach us, it's how to conceive of alternative worlds and the terror and the exhilaration of venturing outside the confines of the lives we know and making our way into a dark, glittering unknown.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thisbe Nissen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0877456917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780877456919\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Iowa Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 262\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.74lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.26h x 5.59w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/27\/1999 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2000 pg. 192","brand":"Thisbe Nissen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43947436343551,"sku":"9780877456919","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_a4c0842c-f31c-4fbc-8696-558a794cdd45.jpg?v=1681518715","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/out-of-the-girls-room-thisbe-nissen-9780877456919","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}