{"product_id":"restlessness-9780889951853","title":"Restlessness","description":"\u003cbr\u003eDesperate to find a home, a restless, wandering woman determines that the only way she can appease her terrible homesickness is to occupy the still center of death. Unable to commit suicide, she hires a professional killer and contracts him to murder her, by her choice and on her terms. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eRestlessness\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles their meeting and its unexpected story and outcome. In an effort to dissuade the woman from death, her killer elicits from her stories about her travels. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this reversal of Sheherazade, who saves her life through a continuous story, \u003ci\u003e Restlessness\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a story about how to avoid story, a travel book about how to evade travel, a manual for how to stay put. Breathtaking in the tension of its incipient murder, this novel will not permit the reader to break the thread of watching and waiting that both death and travel conjure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAritha van Herk was born in central Alberta, and studied at the University of Alberta. She first rose to international literary prominence with the publication of Judith, which received the Seal First Novel Award and which was published in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Professor who teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Red Deer Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52141457899794,"sku":"9780889951853","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_101edb80-d9a9-4ff4-8453-41b7eb8d9052.jpg?v=1774450267","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/restlessness-9780889951853","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}