{"product_id":"secret-agent-man-essays-9781962131070","title":"Secret Agent Man: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eAward-winning author Margot Singer's memoir-in-essays, \u003ci\u003eSecret Agent Man\u003c\/i\u003e, is a powerful exploration of family history, memory, and the meaning of home. The daughter and granddaughter of European Jews displaced by the Holocaust, Singer probes the nature of time and history, obscurity and clarity, displacement and loss. The title essay probes her memories of her father--was he or was he not a spy?--as it grapples with the riddle of whether our parents ever are who we imagine them to be. The impact of these essays is cumulative; page by page, they build into a moving examination of the mysteries and betrayals of the body, desire, artistic ambition, identity, and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSecret Agent Man\u003c\/i\u003e traces Singer's journey from her childhood in Boston, growing up with a father \"who wasn't like anybody else's dad,\" to her days as a high-powered management consultant in New York City, to her mid-life relocation to a small college town in the heart of the Midwest. Compelling, questioning, and yearning, this collection combines a poet's engagement with language with the essayist's intimate, reflective voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSinger, Margot:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMargot Singer\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a novel, \u003ci\u003eUnderground Fugue\u003c\/i\u003e, and a linked short story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Pale of Settlement\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the co-author, with Nicole Walker, of \u003ci\u003eBending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of the Flannery O'Connor Award, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Reform Judaism Prize, the Glasgow Prize, the James Jones First Novel Fellowship, as well as grants from the NEA and the Ohio Arts Council. A professor of creative writing at Denison University, she lives with her family in Granville, Ohio.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Barrow Street","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51384256954642,"sku":"9781962131070","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ed79d856-1ceb-4d56-9a2b-fa151f930ace.jpg?v=1750167151","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/secret-agent-man-essays-9781962131070","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}