{"title":"R. P. Singletary","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"speak-softly-among-icebergs-our-hours-and-other-media-melting-fast-paperback","title":"Speak Softly Among Icebergs: our hours, and other media melting fast - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA grief-wrought creature comes to terms with the suicide of his only child and a subsequent marital demise. He tries any and nearly every aid possible to buoy his sanity: drugs, sex, talk therapy and family gossip; travel near and far (real+imagined?), church and family traditions; other occupations and more schooling; literary therapy: writing to vent and better understand the world he wonders, wanders should he live in--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecalling his own childhood, the man settles on those formative years with the lesbian\/gf Berry--what nearly ended with a pregnancy unresolved. A child born and given away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMEANWHILE, he happens upon an inheritance, a trunk containing a long-dead family member's unpublished travelogue: centering largely on that man's own secrets, we explore the dead relation's escapades in the former Constantinople, a continent-straddling city of many names and conflicting histories....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIF \"1\" place can be so many, perhaps there's hope for me, our Main Man reasons in confession.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101849882847,"sku":"9781961206298","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/A8647bEVws9781961206298.webp?v=1781075758"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/r-p-singletary.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}