{"product_id":"insideout-9781943977444","title":"Inside\/Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I wish I'd had this book when I was 22 and making mistakes all over the world. I might have made fewer, might have made more, but I might have loved myself better the whole time. Bold, wise, percussive delight--Joseph Osmundson brings to the page the candor of the empty bed, and the full one, too. \u003cem\u003eInside\/Out\u003c\/em\u003e is like if Maggie Nelson had written \u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e about fucking men.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Alexander Chee, author of \u003cem\u003eQueen of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e, a\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Editors' Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In tracking an obsessive relationship that treads the devastating line between dysfunction and abuse, Joseph Osmundson explores how vulnerability, need, and shame echo across a life, and meditates on the complexities, both emotional and ethical, of writing that life. \u003cem\u003eInside\/Out\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful and brave book.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Garth Greenwell, author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Belongs to You, \u003c\/em\u003ea \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eTop 10 Book of 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Joseph Osmundson's \u003cem\u003eInside\/Out\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting meditation on longing and making sense of lost love through the lens of a perpetual outsider. Osmundson explores what it means to have our physical body betray our psychic one, to have our silences and misdeeds recorded long after what has transpired, to have, finally, found our way outside.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Tanwi Nandini Islam, author of \u003cem\u003eBright Lines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I don't know that there is a writer in this country doing as much with queer theory, narrative momentum, whiteness, sexual identity, and the literal outside as Joseph Osmundson. Somehow, while welcoming readers into so many folds of his life, he manages to obliterate spectacle and really demands we ask ourselves who and what we are, and who and what we want to hide, from the inside out.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Kiese Laymon, author of \u003cem\u003eLong Division\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sibling Rivalry Press, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50557244801298,"sku":"9781943977444","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7b2f85e4-162f-4e4a-942f-2df4a3c3db57.jpg?v=1731776149","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/insideout-9781943977444","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}