{"product_id":"the-afterlife-a-memoir-paperback","title":"The Afterlife: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the winter of 2000, shortly after his mother's death, Donald Antrim began writing about his family. In pieces that appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and were anthologized in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays, \u003c\/i\u003e Antrim explored his intense and complicated relationships with his mother, Louanne, an artist, teacher, and ferociously destabilizing alcoholic; his gentle grandfather, who lived in the mountains of North Carolina and who always hoped to save his daughter from herself; and his father, who married his mother twice. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Afterlife\u003c\/i\u003e is an elliptical, sometimes tender, sometimes blackly hilarious portrait of a family--faulty, cracked, enraging--and of a man struggling to learn the nature of his origins.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67925726429407,"sku":"9780312426354","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/AfB9BZv8f99780312426354.webp?v=1791226283","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/the-afterlife-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}