{"product_id":"9781927428795","title":"Inheritance","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"Powerful ... full of dark nostalgia.\"—\u003cb\u003eNathan Englander\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lifeboat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll night in his lifeboat my father sang\u003cbr\u003eto keep the voices of the other men\u003cbr\u003ewho cried in the wreckage from reaching him,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehe sang what he knew of the requiem,\u003cbr\u003eof the hit parade and the bits of hymns,\u003cbr\u003ehe sang until he would never sing again,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escalding his raw throat with sea-water\u003cbr\u003euntil his ribs heaved, until the salt\u003cbr\u003ewept from his eyes on dry land,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eflecked at his lips in his squalling rages,\u003cbr\u003estreaked the sheets in his night sweats\u003cbr\u003eas night after night the reassembled ship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003escattered its parts on the shore of his bed,\u003cbr\u003eand the lifeboat eased him out again\u003cbr\u003eto drown each night among singing men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by a shipwreck endured by her father during the Second World War, and by his struggle with post-traumatic stress disorder and eventual suicide, \u003ci\u003eInheritance\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful poetic debut by the winner of the 2013 \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e Fiction Contest and \u003ci\u003eThe Malahat Review\u003c\/i\u003e Far Horizons Award.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47051318329584,"sku":"9781927428795","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927428795_p0.jpg?v=1763636562","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927428795","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}