{"product_id":"awake-awake-7143","title":"Awake Awake","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Confident and unsettling...\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAwake Awake\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e deserves a place alongside Meg Wolitzer's \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Interestings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e and Claire Messud's \u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Burning Girl\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e as an elegiac reflection on the intensity of teenage friendship.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the Booker Prize finalist, a mesmerizing spiral of a novel whose unreliable narrator and her endearing, idiosyncratic group of friends reckon with the psychological weight of history, as it seeps into their everyday lives and relationships\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMary has started remembering things that she knows aren't real--but the events feel exactly like her actual memories. Who is she, if she can't be sure she knows her own past? A writer in her 30s struggling to make rent, Mary has moved back to her childhood town to bartend and save money, when she starts remembering absurd events, clear and visceral as if they'd really happened to her. But she knows they're too wild to be possible. Flashing back to her school years, she searches the past for what could have caused this split in her reality. The lives of their close group of school friends have since diverged, as life choices and politics, partners and children, have taken them to different places and placed them into other stories. But Mary must reconnect with them to find solid ground again.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet against the disorienting and rapidly changing political backdrop of the 2000s and 2010s, Fiona Mozley's disarming coming-of-age tale is addictively readable, and poignantly captures the shakiness of identity - both personal and national - and the anchoring force of friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFiona Mozley\u003c\/b\u003e was born in East London and raised in York, in the North of England. She studied history at Cambridge and then lived in Buenos Aires and London, working at a literary agency and at a travel center. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eElmet\u003c\/i\u003e, was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize in 2017. She lives in Edinburgh with her partner and their dog. Mozley's second novel, \u003ci\u003eHot Stew\u003c\/i\u003e, is available now.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiona Mozley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52791433330973,"sku":"9781523537143","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781523537143.jpg?v=1787254413","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/awake-awake-7143","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}