{"product_id":"bequeath-essays-9780807182772","title":"Bequeath: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat should we do with the things we inherit? In ten intimate essays as vivid as fiction and as varied as music, Melora Wolff's \u003ci\u003eBequeath\u003c\/i\u003e presents a flawed, funny, impressionable narrator who tries to solve the mysteries of bequeathed artifacts, family myths, and haunting mistakes--while also figuring out how to grow up in dangerous, glamorous 1970s New York City. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a wide range of voices--comic, lyric, collective, personal, joyful, and deeply elegiac--Wolff pays homage to her musician father and family as she roams a past rich with cultural touchstones and indelible characters, from \u003ci\u003eWest Side Story \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLost in Space \u003c\/i\u003eto Leonard Bernstein and Gloria Steinem. \u003ci\u003eBequeath \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the legacies we impose and bestow on one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMelora Wolff\u003c\/b\u003e's work has appeared in publications such as \u003ci\u003eBrick, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, \u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eNormal School, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBest American Fantasy, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eSpeculative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eEvery Father's Daughter: Twenty-Four Women Writers Remember Their Fathers\u003c\/i\u003e, and has received multiple Notable Essay of the Year citations from \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays.\u003c\/i\u003e She is director of creative writing at Skidmore College.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50899541491986,"sku":"9780807182772","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0b1d2047-0632-440b-b0a5-7c8718144a7e.jpg?v=1738359549","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bequeath-essays-9780807182772","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}