{"product_id":"9781487002602","title":"Passing Ceremony","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this brilliant debut novel by Helen Weinzweig, the award-winning author of \u003cem\u003eBasic Black With Pearls\u003c\/em\u003e, a wedding reception becomes a gothic dream in which the bride, groom, family, and guests struggle with private obsessions, guilty fantasies of sex and power, and the constant failure of love. The bride is not all she seems and there is something ambiguous about the groom — and about everyone else at the surreal and strangely moving wedding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike a piece of music, \u003cem\u003ePassing Ceremony\u003c\/em\u003e is composed of brief, suggestive fragments that grow into a tightly integrated whole. There are bits of real and imagined conversation; polite dialogues that slide into mad comic banality; and scenes that could be quiet nightmares out of Borges.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA satire and a rueful mediation on the ways people hurt one another, Weinzweig gives us a world suspended in time, an uneasy territory of the soul, which we all inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition features a new introduction by Jim Polk.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"House of Anansi Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027921715440,"sku":"9781487002602","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781487002602_p0.jpg?v=1763635768","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781487002602","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}