{"product_id":"9781564789761","title":"A Brief History of Yes","description":"\u003cp\u003eMicheline Marcom describes her newest novel, \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Yes\u003c\/i\u003e—her first since 2008's scathing and erotic \u003ci\u003eThe Mirror in the Well\u003c\/i\u003e—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 what the Portuguese call saudade—meaning, loosely, yearning and nostalgia for something or someone irrepreably lost. \u003ci\u003eA Brief History of Yes\u003c\/i\u003e 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 captures the workings of attraction and grief, proving once again that American letters has no better poet of love and loss than Micheline Aharonian Marcom.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47149936443632,"sku":"9781564789761","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781564789761_p0.jpg?v=1763770890","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781564789761","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}