{"product_id":"body-language","title":"Body Language","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMEG HOWREY is the author of the novels \n\u003ci\u003eBlind Sight, The Cranes Dance\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Wanderers\u003c\/i\u003e, and most recently, \n\u003ci\u003eThey're Going to Love You\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \n\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editor's Choice, and a \n\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2022. Her work has appeared in \n\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \n\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \n\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books.\u003c\/i\u003e She currently lives in Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"Body Language\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the best novels I've read in years. It's brainy and joyful and philosophical and really, really funny. It made me cry, which few books do. And Meg Howrey's sentences--rhythmic, lithe, precise--are just incredibly pleasurable. I loved it.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Leni Zumas, author of \u003ci\u003eWolf Bells\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"I loved this book. \n\u003ci\u003eBody Language\u003c\/i\u003e hums with lyricism, quiet power, and the kind of stubborn humor that sustains us humans in our darkest moments. Meg Howrey's tale of three complicated sisters facing their mother's decline moves deftly, inexorably from the mundane to the metaphysical. An ambitious and deeply satisfying book.\" -- \n\u003cb\u003eClaire Dederer, author of \u003ci\u003eMonsters: A Fan's Dilemma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Edgy and endearing . . . There's much to love in this unsentimental but briskly hopeful tale about the power of family.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A full-throated, high-minded, big-hearted embrace of family and, especially, sisterhood via thorny exploration of a host of important topics we should talk about more than we do. Every character and every relationship in \n\u003ci\u003eBody Language\u003c\/i\u003e feels sharply real - endearing, maddening, trying in both senses of the word - in short, like family.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Laurie Frankel, author of \u003ci\u003eFamily Family\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Meg Howrey has achieved a difficult feat: a novel about an achingly painful subject that is a pleasure and comfort to read. Wise, witty, and contemporary in the best way, \n\u003ci\u003eBody Language\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel that you'll want to press into the hands of friends, sisters . . . and maybe even your mother.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Isabel Kaplan, author of \u003ci\u003eNSFW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Meg Howrey writes with a satiric eye and a generous heart, and I was won over by her hilarious and disarmingly honest novel about mothers and daughters and what it really means to take care of the people you love.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Marisa Silver, author of \u003ci\u003eAt Last\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Meg Howrey's \n\u003ci\u003eBody Language\u003c\/i\u003e is a tender meditation on letting go. Three distinct sisters, each on their individual life path, return home to their ailing mother, igniting in them a love that will reshape the story of their lives in new and unforgettable ways.\" \n\u003cb\u003e-Nora Lange, author of \u003ci\u003eUs Fools\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eThree adult sisters are faced with their mother's provocative last request in this clear-eyed and moving novel exploring choice, change, and power in the bodies and lives of four different women. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the best novels I've read in years. It's brainy and joyful and philosophical and really, really funny. It made me cry, which few books do. . . I loved it.\" --Leni Zumas, author of \u003ci\u003eWolf Bells\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSloane, a former actress now working as a therapist, is determined to find a meaningful way through menopause, away from marketing schemes, possibly with the aid of psychedelics. Her sister Laurel is managing her own growing rage and restlessness while engaging in work at an environmental nonprofit and raising teenagers. Nanette, the youngest, has answered a long-delayed religious calling and is living as a novice in a convent. All three lives will be further disrupted when Sloane receives a call summoning her to their mother's house, Laurel discovers possible evidence of her husband's infidelity, and Nanette finds herself in the middle of a media frenzy after a spontaneous act of public prayer. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoon, all three are reunited under their mother's roof, and no one can seem to agree about anything beyond the obvious: Barbara has dementia, as did her mother and sister before her. Will it be an opportunity for the closed door of their very private mother's inner life to crack open? A lesson in care; a shared responsibility that will be the making of this family, divided by large age gaps, parental divorce, and temperament? Or will a stunning revelation upend not only their mother's remaining time, but divide the sisters permanently? \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith razor-sharp prose and undeniable humor, acclaimed author Meg Howrey brings an American family in the midst of a painful crisis to unforgettable life, interrogating memory and emotional inheritance, the right of a woman's autonomy, and the indelible bonds even the most disparate of sisters can share.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Doubleday Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496024932630,"sku":"9780385551755","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780385551755.jpg?v=1783050898","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/body-language","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}