{"product_id":"ethan-hawke-me-the-before-trilogy-9798985008944","title":"Ethan Hawke \u0026 Me: The Before Trilogy","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Andrew Bertaina first saw the 1995 Ethan Hawke-Julie Delpy film Before Sunrise-swiping the tape from his sister's bedroom-he was fifteen, painfully shy, and living a sheltered existence in small-town California. The movie cracked something open in him, with its romantic European setting and its charming, intelligent protagonists, who fall in love with each other over the course of a day spent wandering the streets of Vienna. Within the movie's story seemed to lie a promise: that you could truly be known by another person, that a relationship could be a never-ending conversation with someone who was both interested and interesting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFast-forward 25 years, and Andrew's teenaged romanticism has been challenged by life's realities, which have included a marriage, a child, a move across the country, a divorce. Meanwhile, the film's central relationship has also been challenged and complicated by two sequels. When Andrew decides to revisit the first film, with a new partner and a bottle of wine-a rare date night for two single parents-he can't help but wonder: Will he still see himself in the movie? And, perhaps more importantly, will she?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBertaina, Andrew:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Andrew Bertaina is the author of the essay collection The Body Is a Temporary Gathering Place (Autofocus 2024), and the short-story collection One Person Away From You (Moon City Press Award Winner 2021). He lives in the D.C. Metro area and is a lecturer in the English Department at American University.","brand":"Barrelhouse Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51325290938642,"sku":"9798985008944","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_84326a58-b39e-4147-97f4-7df17dad0401.jpg?v=1748725175","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/ethan-hawke-me-the-before-trilogy-9798985008944","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}