{"product_id":"the-gin-closet-9781439153239","title":"The Gin Closet","description":"From the author of the New York Times bestselling essay collection The Empathy Exams and the memoir The Recovering, Leslie Jamison's \"exquisitely beautiful\" (San Francisco Chronicle) novel about three generations of women and the inescapable brutality of love.As a young woman, Tilly flees home for the hollow underworld of Nevada, looking for pure souls and finding nothing but bad habits. One day, after Tilly has spent nearly thirty years without a family, drinking herself to the brink of death, her niece Stella--who has been leading her own life of empty promise in New York City--arrives on the doorstep of Tilly's desert trailer. The Gin Closet unravels the strange and powerful intimacy that forms between them. With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty, unflinching candor about sex, love, and power, Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns, the life we're given is all we have: the cruelties that unhinge us, the beauties that clarify us, the addictions that deform us, those fleeting possibilities of grace that fade as quickly as they come. The Gin Closet marks the debut of a stunning new talent in fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJamison, Leslie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Leslie Jamison was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Los Angeles. She has worked as a baker, an office temp, an innkeeper, a tutor, and a medical actor. A graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa's Workshop, she is the author of the essay collection \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eYork Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, and the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Gin Closet\u003c\/i\u003e, a finalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, among others, and she is a columnist for the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBook Review\u003c\/i\u003e. She teaches at Columbia University and lives in Brooklyn with her family.","brand":"Free Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50634853908754,"sku":"9781439153239","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_720536dd-373c-4518-87c5-6da117318154.jpg?v=1732823264","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-gin-closet-9781439153239","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}