{"product_id":"the-beautiful-agonies-adrie-kusserow-9781478039716","title":"The Beautiful Agonies","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Agonies\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous, genre-bending work of literary nonfiction that braids intimate memoir, lyric essay, Buddhism, and anthropological insight into a meditation on aging, maternal caregiving, dying, and the beauty of the natural world. With fierce tenderness, Kusserow chronicles her mother's final year of life in rural Vermont--days shaped by stark comedy and bodily decline, loneliness and fear, a scrappy, dogged search for meaning, and the intense beauty of the Vermont landscape. Kusserow's trained anthropological lens, alert to stigma, cultural scripts, and the performance of \"good aging,\" sits alongside a tender daughter's heart, creating a poetic, nuanced narrative that is both intellectually rigorous and emotionally shattering. Kusserow's poetic and culturally perceptive voice--by turns wry, furious, reverent, and quietly funny--refuses sentimentality while still delivering catharsis. \u003ci\u003eThe Beautiful Agonies\u003c\/i\u003e offers readers an extraordinary intersection of humanities and health, ethics and embodied emotion, cultural critique and spiritual inquiry, and a mother and daughter's shared love of the natural world, a work as philosophically searching as it is heartbreakingly human.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adrie Kusserow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 147803971X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478039716\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs","brand":"Adrie Kusserow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49001356853503,"sku":"9781478039716","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-beautiful-agonies-adrie-kusserow-9781478039716","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}