{"product_id":"what-youve-been-missing-janet-desaulniers-9780877459101","title":"What You've Been Missing","description":"\u003cp\u003ePopulated by characters as frank as their midwestern settings, \"What You ve Been Missing,\" Janet Desaulniers s debut collection, explores the unsettling moments when ordinary life ceases to exist. Parents, confused by their five-year-old s refusal to sit up in her chair, lift her blouse to find she s been beaten. A woman returns from a shopping trip just in time to see her husband kissing a young co-worker. A young husband constructs an elaborate and romanticized version of his new marriage and then ruins it in one gesture. These singular moments propel each person on a journey beyond the realm of everyday existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVividly portraying the possible horrors and detours that can mark anyone s life, Desaulniers beautifully captures the vast and often conflicting emotions that humans endure at times of loss and sorrow loneliness, pain, desperation, desire. Yet this balletic push and pull of emotions will challenge, wound, and ultimately enlighten her characters, transporting them to a place beyond individual sorrow.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt times unbearably heartbreaking, \"What You ve Been Missing\" is not just another set of stories about bad things happening to good people. At its heart, this award-winning collection is about people continuing to talk rather than shutting down as bad things happen to them. As the recently divorced Liza thinks in The Good Fight: Words do ease us. They comfort us. Maybe they protect us in a way, rescue us from the agony of what our bodies feel. \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Janet Desaulniers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 087745910X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780877459101\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 10\/01\/2004\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.43lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 5.62w x 0.38d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2004 pg. 760\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/01\/2004 pg. 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/20\/2004 pg. 46\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2004 pg. 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/15\/2004\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Janet Desaulniers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075448434943,"sku":"9780877459101","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5a97976d-b04a-4937-9ca6-efef999b4ab5.jpg?v=1685459483","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/what-youve-been-missing-janet-desaulniers-9780877459101","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}