{"product_id":"9780143125884","title":"Darling: A Spiritual Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn award–winning writer delivers a major reckoning with religion, place, and sexuality in the aftermath of 9\/11\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHailed in \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post \u003c\/i\u003eas “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America,” Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRodriguez’s stylish new memoir—the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize finalist—moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the religions of the desert that exclude him. He is a passionate, unorthodox Christian who is always mindful of his relationship to Judaism and Islam because of a shared belief in the God who revealed himself within an ecology of emptiness. And at the center of this book is a consideration of women—their importance to Rodriguez’s spiritual formation and their centrality to the future of the desert religions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly a mind as elastic and refined as Rodriguez’s could bind these threads together into this wonderfully complex tapestry.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47008588693744,"sku":"9780143125884","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143125884_p0.jpg?v=1763656882","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143125884","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}