{"product_id":"9781564788498","title":"A Brief History of Yes","description":"\u003cp\u003eMicheline Marcom describes her newest novel, \"A Brief History of Yes\"--her first since 2008's scathing and erotic \"The Mirror in the Well\"--as a \"literary fado,\" referring to a style of Portuguese music that, akin to the American blues, is often melancholic and soulful, and encapsulates the feeling of \"saudade\"--meaning, loosely, yearning and nostalgia for something or someone irreparably lost. \"A Brief History of Yes\" tells the story of the break-up between a Portuguese woman named Maria and an unnamed American man: it is a collage-like, fragmentary novel whose form perfectly captures the workings of attraction and grief, proving once again that American literature has no better poet of love and loss than Micheline Aharonian Marcom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dalkey Archive Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47054681800944,"sku":"9781564788498","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781564788498_p0.jpg?v=1772499673","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781564788498","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}