{"product_id":"9781937512262","title":"Binary Star","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"The particular genius of \u003ci\u003eBinary Star\u003c\/i\u003e is that out of such grim material it constructs beauty. It's like a novel-shaped poem about addiction, codependence and the relentlessness of the everyday, a kind of elegy of emptiness.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Rhythmic, hallucinatory, yet vivid as crystal. Gerard has channeled her trials and tribulations into a work of heightened reality, one that sings to the lonely gravity of the human body.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sarah Gerard's debut, \u003ci\u003eBinary Star\u003c\/i\u003e, radiates beauty. Gerard captures the beauty and scientific irony of damaged relationships and ephemeral heavenly lights. Just as with the stars, it is collapse that offers the most illumination.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sarah Gerard's star is rising.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"With the grace of a poem and the attitude of a punk anthem, \u003ci\u003eBinary Star\u003c\/i\u003e is an unusual treasure. Sarah Gerard is a young writer on the rise. She has a voice you have to hear to believe.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gerard has produced a powerful, poetic, and widely relatable novel that eludes easy classification.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, Starred\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gerard writes fiction like poetry, constructing a mesmerizing, complex story of addiction, obsession and love.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A glittering novel that tears into the headspace of a young anorexic in love with an alcoholic. Gerard’s spare language and spacing is an intimate, cinematic poem.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Brooklyn Rail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gerard has an interesting fearlessness.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A bold, beautiful novel about wanting to disappear and almost succeeding. Sarah Gerard writes about love and loneliness in a new and brilliantly visceral way.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Jenny Offill\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I felt a breathless intensity the whole time I read Sarah Gerard's brilliant \u003ci\u003eBinary Star\u003c\/i\u003e. I sped through it, dizzy,devastated, loving all of it.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Kate Zambreno\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe language of the stars is the language of the body. Like a star, the anorexic burns fuel that isn't replenished; she is held together by her own gravity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith luminous, lyrical prose, \u003ci\u003eBinary Star\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned account of a young woman struggling with anorexia and her long-distance, alcoholic boyfriend. On a road trip circumnavigating the United States, they stumble into a book on veganarchism, and believe they've found a direction.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBinary Star\u003c\/i\u003e is an intense, fast-moving saga of two young lovers and the culture that keeps them sick (or at least inundated with quick-fix solutions); a society that sells diet pills, sleeping pills, magazines that profile celebrities who lose weight or too much weight or put on weight, and books that pimp diet secrets or recipes for success.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Gerard\u003c\/b\u003e's work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's \"The Cut,\" \u003ci\u003eParis Review Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSlice Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e, and other journals. She is the author of the chapbook \u003ci\u003eThings I Told My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e and a graduate of The New School's MFA program for fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Two Dollar Radio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175392526576,"sku":"9781937512262","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781937512262_p0.jpg?v=1763661148","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781937512262","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}