{"product_id":"will-or-the-unworthy-life-susan-molyneaux-9781998648412","title":"Will, or The Unworthy Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWill, or The Unworthy Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCora Wilson wakes each morning and counts seven stripes of light across her ceiling. She takes seven pills. She measures her coffee to exact proportions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince her cancer diagnosis and subsequent remission, precision has become both discipline and comfort.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut recently, Cora has developed a certainty-not anxiety, not premonition, but knowledge as solid as the stone she feels lodged behind her sternum: someone will kill her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than resist this certainty, Cora prepares for it. She organizes her financial records, updates her will, visits the police (who can do nothing without evidence of an actual threat), and methodically arranges for her absence. She observes her colleagues' five-year plans and retirement accounts with anthropological distance, watching people invest in futures she knows she won't share.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen she sees him: a man whose careful appearances in grocery stores and parks confirm what she already knows. Their encounters are wordless, choreographed, inevitable. As autumn deepens and their paths converge toward a final meeting, Cora continues her preparations-not from fear, but from a desire for dignity, for completion, for the proper arrangement of what will be left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten entirely in future tense, \u003cem\u003eWill, or The Unworthy Life, \u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on mortality, ritual, and the strange territory between presence and absence. It asks: What does it mean to live when you're certain of your ending? And what happens when even death finds you've already become too insubstantial to claim?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor readers of Jenny Offill, Ben Lerner, and Rachel Cusk.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Susan Molyneaux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1998648419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781998648412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northshore Firelight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/18\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d","brand":"Susan Molyneaux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520946323711,"sku":"9781998648412","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5c4becaf-6561-4ae5-914e-9be8857339fd.jpg?v=1762887883","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/will-or-the-unworthy-life-susan-molyneaux-9781998648412","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}