{"product_id":"unfit-9780811238892","title":"Unfit","description":"\u003cp\u003eLisa has lost custody of her young twin boys. Caught between the French legal system's sluggish bureaucracy and her sinister, scheming in-laws, she's alone and lost, an Argentine migrant in rural France picking grapes for a pittance, only allowed to see her children in supervised visits once a month. Scapegoated and outcast, destitute and desperate, Lisa decides to take radical action: early one morning, she sneaks into her in-laws' farmhouse, takes back her children, sets the barn ablaze, and makes her escape. What follows is a white-knuckled road trip that explores human beings pushed to the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClearly, Lisa is not in her right mind, and as Harwicz deftly mingles a chorus of contradictory voices into her very unreliable narration, the reader comes to regard the protagonist with an unsettling mixture of sympathy and suspicion. Written in savage, chiseled prose, \u003cem\u003eUnfit\u003c\/em\u003e shoots off, a gripping chase that questions all our assumptions--and points out our hypocrisies--about motherhood, custody rights, love, violence, antisemitism, and migration. The latest novel by the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eDie, My Love\u003c\/em\u003e (soon to be adapted to a film starring Jennifer Lawrence), \u003cem\u003eUnfit\u003c\/em\u003e is addictively terrifying, savagely sophisticated, and shockingly brilliant.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHarwicz, Ariana:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The fiercely independent writer and thinker Ariana Harwicz (b. 1977, Argentina) studied comparative literature at the Sorbonne. The author of \u003cem\u003eDie My Love\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFeebleminded\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePrecious\u003c\/em\u003e, Harwicz has been translated into 20 languages, and \u003cem\u003eDie, My Love\u003c\/em\u003e was longlisted for the Booker International Prize.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSayer, Jessie Mendez:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Jessie Mendez Sayer is an British\/Venezuelan translator who has been living and working in Mexico City since 2017. Her translations include \u003cem\u003eThe Untameable\u003c\/em\u003e by Guillermo Arriaga and \u003cem\u003eThe Last Days of El Comandante\u003c\/em\u003e by Alberto Barrera Tyszka.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51635536822546,"sku":"9780811238892","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_02547ca1-8ea7-4ede-9928-f199a3f5dfce.jpg?v=1759241509","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unfit-9780811238892","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}