{"product_id":"9781927428801","title":"Inheritance","description":"\"Powerful ... full of dark nostalgia.\"—\u003cb\u003eNathan Englander\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Lifeboat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003escalding his raw throat with sea-water\u003cbr\u003euntil his ribs heaved, until the salt\u003cbr\u003ewept from his eyes on dry land,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eflecked at his lips in his squalling rages,\u003cbr\u003estreaked the sheets in his night sweats\u003cbr\u003eas night after night the reassembled ship\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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","brand":"Biblioasis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169353023728,"sku":"9781927428801","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781927428801_p0.jpg?v=1763636219","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781927428801","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}