{"product_id":"the-apartment-on-calle-uruguay-9781646221745","title":"The Apartment on Calle Uruguay","description":"\u003cb\u003eA haunting new novel by the author of \u003ci\u003eVengeance\u003c\/i\u003e in which a chance encounter between a blocked painter and a journalist leads to a complicated romance that reveals their buried histories and vulnerabilities against the backdrops of an America in chaos and Mexico.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning in the first summer of the post-Obama world, Zachary Lazar's bewitching and masterful new novel tells the story of Christopher Bell, a blocked painter on the East End of Long Island, and Ana Ramirez, a journalist who fled the crisis in Venezuela and is looking for work in New York. Bell has always felt marked by his foreignness, having emigrated to the U.S. as a child, and has come to believe that \"words like 'identity' and 'American' are somehow very meaningful and very meaningless at the same time.\" He has retreated to a modest house near a patch of woods, \"a rural nowhere...that sometimes held more meaning for me in its silence than human language.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the woods, he encounters Ana, who is trying to \"reinvent herself as the kind of person she'd been before\" the world she knew disappeared. A complicated romance develops that gradually reveals their buried histories--from the death of Bell's former partner, Malika Jordan, a fellow artist, to the prison farm where he visits Malika's incarcerated brother Jesse, to Mexico City, where Ana's exiled family now lives. All of them have faced the same problem: how to build a new life once the idea you've had of \"home\" vanishes or becomes unrecognizable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Apartment on Calle Uruguay\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting exploration of love, art, and the cost of transformation. It lays out a fiercely intentional and introspective way of living in an unjust world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eZachary Lazar\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five previous books, including the novel \u003ci\u003eSway\u003c\/i\u003e, the memoir \u003ci\u003eEvening's Empire: The Story of My Father's Murder\u003c\/i\u003e, and the novel \u003ci\u003eI Pity the Poor Immigrant\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2014. His honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, and the 2015 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for \"a writer in mid-career whose work has demonstrated consistent excellence.\" Lazar lives in New Orleans, where he is on the creative writing faculty at Tulane University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50389742518546,"sku":"9781646221745","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_27f533e2-2ac2-4b4d-9e30-810e8dfdfd6e.jpg?v=1761735352","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-apartment-on-calle-uruguay-9781646221745","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}