{"product_id":"the-summer-without-men-a-novel","title":"The Summer Without Men: A Novel","description":"\"And who among us would deny Jane Austen her happy endings or insist that Cary Grant and Irene Dunne should get back together at the end of The Awful Truth? There are tragedies and there are comedies, aren't there? And they are often more the same than different, rather like men and women, if you ask me. A comedy depends on stopping the story at exactly the right moment.\"\n\nMia Fredrickson, the wry, vituperative, tragic comic, poet narrator of The Summer Without Men, has been forced to reexamine her own life. One day, out of the blue, after thirty years of marriage, Mia's husband, a renowned neuroscientist, asks her for a \"pause.\" This abrupt request sends her reeling and lands her in a psychiatric ward. The June following Mia's release from the hospital, she returns to the prairie town of her childhood, where her mother lives in an old people's home. Alone in a rented house, she rages and fumes and bemoans her sorry fate. Slowly, however, she is drawn into the lives of those around her―her mother and her close friends,\"the Five Swans,\" and her young neighbor with two small children and a loud angry husband―and the adolescent girls in her poetry workshop whose scheming and petty cruelty carry a threat all their own.\n\nFrom the internationally bestselling author of What I Loved comes Siri Hustvedt's provocative, witty, and revelatory novel about women and girls, love and marriage, and the age-old question of sameness and difference between the sexes.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0312570600\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: RDV.0312570600.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Hustvedt, Siri\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: This book is in excellent condition. There may be minimal writing on the inside cover or cover page. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Reliant Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47690826186929,"sku":"RDV.0312570600.VG","price":6.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0544\/8872\/7729\/files\/0312570600-0.jpg?v=1783704771","url":"https:\/\/www.reliantbookstore.com\/products\/the-summer-without-men-a-novel","provider":"Reliant Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}