{"product_id":"imagine-your-life-like-this-9780299342548","title":"Imagine Your Life Like This","description":"\u003ch2\u003eImagine Your Life Like This by Sarah Layden\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nThe characters who inhabit Sarah Layden's short story collection are on the verge of change--if only they could see themselves and their situations with greater clarity. Caught in the midst of crises, they stumble toward the future without fully understanding their past. Layden's deft, spare prose sketches worlds and lives with telling details, juggling disparate strands of identity and often revealing the deeper truths in unexpected moments of epiphany.\n\n\u003cp\u003eA bride-to-be puts on her detective hat when her groom goes missing. A woman returns to college after escaping an abusive marriage, only to discover her professor is a fraud. Reunited at a high school reunion, two former classmates completely misinterpret a critical incident from a decade prior. These and other characters find themselves lonely and in limbo, their self-identity as blurry as the old photographs they cling to with stubborn intensity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eStories of Everyday Americans\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nSet mostly in the Midwest and upstate New York, this collection captures everyday Americans in all their discontent, misunderstandings, and dogged determination for a better world. Each story examines moments of crisis and clarity, where characters confront their pasts while navigating uncertain futures.\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\nSarah Layden, assistant professor of English at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, is the author of \u003ci\u003eTrip Through Your Wires\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel, and \u003ci\u003eThe Story I Tell Myself About Myself\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Sonder Press Chapbook Competition. She is co-author with Bryan Furuness of \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Art of Literary Editing\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680466800914,"sku":"9780299342548","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b4ad868d-4b53-4eb3-9c91-c6e88ea489f7.jpg?v=1734906647","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/imagine-your-life-like-this-9780299342548","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}