{"product_id":"restlessness-aritha-van-herk-9780889951853","title":"Restlessness","description":"\u003cbr\u003eDesperate to find a home, a restless, wandering woman determines that the only way she can appease her terrible homesickness is to occupy the still center of death. Unable to commit suicide, she hires a professional killer and contracts him to murder her, by her choice and on her terms. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRestlessness\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles their meeting and its unexpected story and outcome. In an effort to dissuade the woman from death, her killer elicits from her stories about her travels. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this reversal of Sheherazade, who saves her life through a continuous story, \u003ci\u003e Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a story about how to avoid story, a travel book about how to evade travel, a manual for how to stay put. Breathtaking in the tension of its incipient murder, this novel will not permit the reader to break the thread of watching and waiting that both death and travel conjure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aritha Van Herk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0889951853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889951853\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Red Deer Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 193\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.54h x 5.13w x 0.62d","brand":"Aritha Van Herk","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48446928879871,"sku":"9780889951853","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_59f060ec-c103-4238-bb19-31b55a758ac0.jpg?v=1777227666","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/restlessness-aritha-van-herk-9780889951853","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}