{"product_id":"9780972898485","title":"Confessions of a Memory Eater","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Complicated, cool and vulnerable at the same time...you can't help falling for Pagan Kennedy's characters.\"—Stephen Dubner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce a brilliant historian with a promising academic future, Win Duncan is at a crossroads in his career when he is mysteriously summoned by Litminov, a wild but brilliant chemist from his college days. Litminov has made millions since, and has bought a pharmaceutical company solely to develop MEM, an experimental drug that gives one the ability to recall life’s best memories with crystal clarity. Duncan becomes a beta tester and loses himself to the most delicious moments of his past—those precious few years with his mother who died tragically when he was just a child; ecstatic sex with his wife when they first fell in love—until he discovers the dark side effects of a drug that turns the past into pornography and renders the present useless.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA proven master of underground lit, beat fiction and narrative non-fiction, Pagan Kennedy takes on America’s obsession with the idealized past with freshness, wit, and an uncanny ability to measure the pulse of post-modern culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePagan Kennedy\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seven books. The most recent, \u003ci\u003eBlack Livingstone\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book and a winner of the Massachusetts Book Award. Her novel \u003ci\u003eSpinsters\u003c\/i\u003e won a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Award and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Britain’s most prestigious literary award. Her articles appear regularly in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSpin\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Leapfrog Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47023882010864,"sku":"9780972898485","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780972898485_p0.jpg?v=1763885921","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780972898485","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}