{"product_id":"9780060934859","title":"Limbo, and Other Places I Have Lived : Short Stories","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLimbo, and Other Places I Have Lived\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Lily Tuck\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an elegant and penetrating first short-story collection, \u003cem\u003eLimbo, and Other Places I Have Lived,\u003c\/em\u003e Lily Tuck's characters travel to unknown, exotic places and, while there, find themselves deeply immersed in observation -- of the natives, the local customs, the foreign landscape -- in an effort to discern some elemental truth about who they themselves are. Instead, these women meet with disorientation, confusion; they are disappointed by the people closest to them -- lovers, husbands, family members. Finally, they arrive at the sometimes heartbreaking but ultimately optimistic realization that the answers they seek lie not in other people or places but within themselves. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLimbo, and Other Places I Have Lived\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliant collection from a writer of exceptional poise and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e“These are beautiful, moving stories that reverberate in the mind.”\u003cbr\u003e[Lily Tuck is] an elegantly economical stylist able to evoke complex internal meltdowns with a simple stoke of the keys.\u003cbr\u003e“Elegant”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780060934859\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":41024161775822,"sku":"9780060934859","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/9780060934859.jpg?v=1647570554","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780060934859","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}