{"product_id":"9781771313278","title":"The Truth of Houses","description":"Winner of the 2011 Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Awards  Poems exploring the idea of home and the difficulties of a deeply ambiguous relationship to that word.   At once wise and achingly at a loss, Ann Scowcroft's The Truth of Houses is an elegant debut collection. While very intimate -- even startlingly intimate at times -- the voices of these poems are constantly taking a step backward, wrestling for a measure of distance and perspective. Reading them, we eavesdrop on the uncovering of a personal vernacular that might allow the present to be better lived; we have the sense of overhearing a particular yet eerily familiar inner struggle -- a struggle for insight, for an equanimity with which both narrator and fortunate reader might re-enter life anew.","brand":"Brick Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150000046320,"sku":"9781771313278","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781771313278_p0.jpg?v=1763707314","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781771313278","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}