{"product_id":"unspeakable-home-9781668015339","title":"Unspeakable Home","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom award-winning writer Ismet Prcic, a \"brutal and tender and beautiful\" (Tommy Orange, author of \u003ci\u003eWandering Stars\u003c\/i\u003e) novel that is \"part existential cry...part anguished confession...a transfiguring of personal memory to obscure the terrible cost of exile\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHaving fled his war-torn hometown of Tuzla as a teenager, our narrator, Izzy, found love and a measure of stability in California with his beloved. But his American marriage couldn't survive his Bosnian brokenness, the trauma so entrenched and insidious that it became impossible to communicate to anyone outside of himself--even the person he loved most. Now, as he writes in the first of many courageously candid fan letters to the comedian Bill Burr, he knows he must try. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An adventurous novel that meshes a fragmented narrative with a broken soul\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e), \u003ci\u003e Unspeakable Home\u003c\/i\u003e takes us through Izzy's memories and confessions as he reflects on his bomb-ravaged childhood, the implosion of his relationships, and an agonizing battle with alcoholism. As multiple narrators surface in fragments with increasingly tenuous connections to reality, Prcic unearths the psychological cost of exile and shame with a roving, kinetic energy and a sharp, searching sense of humor. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhat emerges is a vivid and poignant exploration of the stories we create to hide the deepest parts of our identity from ourselves, as well as a hard-won, life-affirming promise of redemption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePrcic, Ismet:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Ismet Prcic was born in Tuzla, Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1977 and immigrated to America in 1996. His first novel, \u003ci\u003eShards\u003c\/i\u003e, was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book, a \u003ci\u003eChicago Sun-Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year, as well as the winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Art Seidenbaum Award for first fiction.","brand":"Avid Reader Press \/ Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50875406942482,"sku":"9781668015339","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e13e7cea-4474-4a6a-b6dc-5ae62683699c.jpg?v=1756203383","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/unspeakable-home-9781668015339","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}