{"product_id":"9781555973360","title":"Ongoingness: The End of a Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of  the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that  she has kept for twenty-five years. “I wanted to end each day with a  record of everything that had ever happened,” she explains. But this  simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that  she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight  hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual  practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these  two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a  different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing  time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e is a spare, meditative work that stands  in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary—it is a haunting  account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find  clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bold, elegant, and honest . . . \u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e reads variously as an addict’s testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Manguso  captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . .  . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read.” —Maria Popova,\u003ci\u003e Brain Pickings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149142540528,"sku":"9781555973360","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555973360_p0.jpg?v=1763756187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555973360","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}