{"product_id":"new-life-9781625570277","title":"New Life","description":"A subversive glimpse into the dark wildness of preparing for motherhood. \u003ci\u003eNew Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on the changing\/changeling body, wrought in lyric decadence. Novak leads a seductive tour through plashy islands, Great Lakes hideouts, cursed apartments, and castaway nightmares, sighting the baroque and the barren, and celebrating the romance of isolation amidst an interior of plenty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoAnna Novak is the author of memoir \u003ci\u003eContradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short story collection \u003ci\u003eMeaningful Work\u003c\/i\u003e won the Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Contest and was published by FC2. She is the author of the novel \u003ci\u003eI Must Have You\u003c\/i\u003e and three books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eNew Life; Abeyance, North America;\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNoirmania\u003c\/i\u003e. Novak's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New York Times, The Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, and other publications. Her fourth book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eDOMESTIREXIA\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from Soft Skull Press in 2024.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50863448260882,"sku":"9781625570277","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_02375700-b539-4e45-bcde-87c048968ef7.jpg?v=1737637682","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/new-life-9781625570277","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}