{"product_id":"9781934137017","title":"Awkward: A Detour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Mary Cappello[’s] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . . [is] revelatory indeed.” — \u003cb\u003eMARK DOTY\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDog Years: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFire to Fire: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of great cultural criticism and all the emotional pull of memoir. A fascinating book.” — \u003cb\u003eSARAH WATERS\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Little Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWithout awkwardness we would not know grace, stability, or balance. Yet no one before Mary Cappello has turned such a penetrating gaze on this misunderstood condition. Fearlessly exploring the ambiguous borders of identity, she mines her own life journeys—from Russia, to Italy, to the far corners of her heart and the depths of a literary or cinematic text—to decipher the powerful messages that awkwardness can transmit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMary Cappello\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books of literary nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eAwkward: A Detour\u003c\/i\u003e , which was a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eCalled Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life,\u003c\/i\u003e which won a \u003ci\u003eForeWord Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publishers Prize, and \u003ci\u003eSwallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them.\u003c\/i\u003e Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island and Lucerne-in-Maine, Maine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bellevue Literary Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048191574256,"sku":"9781934137017","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781934137017_p0.jpg?v=1763656088","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781934137017","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}