{"product_id":"2940169397819","title":"See Now Then: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSee Now Then\u003c\/i\u003e, the brilliant and evocative novel from Jamaica Kincaid (her first in 10 years), a marriage is revealed in all its joys and agonies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness unfolds gracefully, and Kincaid inhabits each of her characters amp;mdash; a mother, father, and two children living in a small village in New England amp;mdash; as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future. For, as she writes, \"the present will be a now then and the past is now then and the future will be a now then.\" Her characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, nonlinear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSee Now Then\u003c\/i\u003e is Kincaid¿s attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end. Since the publication of her first short story collection, \u003ci\u003eAt the Bottom of the River\u003c\/i\u003e, nominated for a PEN \/ Faulkner Award for fiction, Jamaica Kincaid has demonstrated a unique talent for seeing beyond and through the surface of things. In \u003ci\u003eSee Now Then\u003c\/i\u003e, she envelops the listener in a world that is both familiar and startling amp;mdash; creating her most emotionally and thematically daring work yet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Macmillan Audio production.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104502890736,"sku":"2940169397819","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169397819_p0.jpg?v=1763681365","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169397819","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}