{"product_id":"9780593314432","title":"The Red Arrow: A novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen a once-promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicist’s memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: Plagued by debt, he’s grown distant from his wife and is haunted by an overwhelming sense of dread he describes as “The Mist.” Then, things get worse: The physicist vanishes, leaving everything in limbo, including our narrator’s sanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Among the most accurate and insightful depictions of depression I’ve ever read.\" —\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brewer’s earnest description of psilocybin therapy turns a bravura comic novel into something deeper and stranger: an account of unexpected, hard-won joy.” —\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an attempt rid himself of \"The Mist,\" the young writer undergoes an experimental, psychedelic treatment and finds his world completely transformed: Joy suffuses every moment. For the first time, he understands himself in a larger, universal context, and feels his life shift, refract, and crack open to reveal his past and future alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMoving swiftly from a chemical spill in West Virginia to Silicon Valley, from a Brooklyn art studio to a high-speed train racing across the Italian countryside, \u003ci\u003eThe Red Arrow\u003c\/i\u003e wades into the shadowy depths of the human psyche only to emerge, as if speeding through a mile-long tunnel, into a world that is so bright and wondrous, it almost feels completely new.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47917834404080,"sku":"9780593314432","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780593314432_p0.jpg?v=1763722573","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780593314432","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}