{"product_id":"so-long-jen-levitt-9781954245501","title":"So Long","description":"\u003cp\u003e Anticipating and then grieving the death of her father, Jen Levitt's \u003ci\u003eSo Long\u003c\/i\u003e fleshes out a full elegiac register, sitting with the mourning of farewell while holding onto gratitude, remembrance, and a permeating love. \"Soon,\" she says, \"we'll have to find another way to meet, as moonlight \/ makes the river glow.\" In the contrails of bittersweet loss, Levitt's speaker observes all that surrounds her, and the self, too, as a phenomenon in loneliness. In the suburbs, she notes high- school athletes circling \"in their sweat-resistant fabrics,\" \"so natural in their tank tops, those dutiful kids trying to beat time\"; upstate, she finds herself in temple where Broadway music has replaced prayer and discovers \"no promises, \/ but, like hearing a rustle in deep woods \u0026amp; turning to locate its source, the chance for something rare.\" It is this humanistic faith that inverts the title's idiomatic goodbye into a statement of permanence, the truth of our enduring, improbable lives: look at this, she seems to command herself, \"\u0026amp; look at how lucky I've been, for so long.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jen Levitt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1954245505\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781954245501\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Four Way Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.91w x 0.32d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/29\/2023","brand":"Jen Levitt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44133577031935,"sku":"9781954245501","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2918634a-c261-4886-9a0f-3e9f587b6538.jpg?v=1687486957","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/so-long-jen-levitt-9781954245501","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}