{"product_id":"9780393254990","title":"Square Inch Hours","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vividly rendered collection tracing the aftermath of a breakdown and the struggle to reconnect with the realities of daily life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the manner of a poetic meditation, \u003cem\u003eSquare Inch Hours\u003c\/em\u003e draws on elements from fiction, memoir, daybook, and reverie, piecing together moments that follow in the aftermath of a breakdown.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWriting from an area outside psychology or personal history, the intensely solitary speaker relates the experience of reengaging with the world. With an adamant attentiveness, he turns his focus to observing reality in its minutest particulars: the expression on the face of a random passerby; the palsied hand of a grocery clerk; copulating flies on a windowsill; a deep gouge, like a bullet hole, in his apartment door. How he perceives is how he reconnects. The title, \u003cem\u003eSquare Inch Hours\u003c\/em\u003e, expresses that impulse to capture each moment, as in the square of a photograph.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118637498608,"sku":"9780393254990","price":22.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393254990_p0.jpg?v=1763696947","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393254990","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}