{"product_id":"dry-your-tears-to-perfect-your-aim-9781771669047","title":"Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Quebec Writers Federation Fiction Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat are the best ways to support political struggles that aren't your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? \u003ci\u003eDry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim \u003c\/i\u003eis a remarkably original, literary page-turner that explores such pressing questions of our time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA depressed writer visits a war zone. He knows it's a bad idea, but his curiosity and obsession that his tax dollars help to pay for foreign wars draw him there. Amid the fighting, he stumbles into a small strip of land that's being reimagined as a grassroots, feminist, egalitarian utopia. As he learns about the principles of the collective, he moves between a fragile sense of self and the ethical considerations of writing about what he experiences but cannot truly fathom. Meanwhile, women in his life--from this reimagined society and elsewhere--underscore truths hidden in plain sight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, real-world politics mingle with profoundly inventive fabulations. This is an anti-war novel unlike any other, an intricate study of our complicity in violent global systems and a celebration of the hope that underpins the resistance against them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJACOB WREN\u003c\/b\u003e makes literature, performances, and exhibitions. His books include \u003ci\u003eRevenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePolyamorous Love Song\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and a Globe and Mail best book of 2014); \u003ci\u003eRich and Poor\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a Globe and Mail best book of 2016); and \u003ci\u003eAuthenticity is a Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e. He is artistic co-director of the Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART. Wren lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Book*hug Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900698464530,"sku":"9781771669047","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_12f938b5-f2fe-4da1-b745-70558a02f15b.jpg?v=1738392879","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dry-your-tears-to-perfect-your-aim-9781771669047","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}