{"product_id":"divide-me-by-zero-isbn-9781947793422","title":"Divide Me by Zero","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editor’s Choice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAs a young girl, Katya Geller learned from her mother that math was the answer to everything. Now, approaching forty, she finds this wisdom tested: she has lost the love of her life, she is in the middle of a divorce, and has just found out that her mother is dying. Nothing is adding up.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith humor, intelligence, and unfailing honesty, Katya traces back her life’s journey: her childhood in Soviet Russia, her parents’ great love, the death of her father, her mother’s career as a renowned mathematician, and their immigration to the United States. She is, by turns, an adrift newlywed, an ESL teacher in an office occupied by witches and mediums, a restless wife, an accomplished writer, a flailing mother of two, a grieving daughter, and, all the while, a woman caught up in the most common misfortune of all—falling in love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning author Lara Vapnyar delivers an unabashedly frank and darkly comic tale of coming of age in middle age. \u003ci\u003eDivide Me by Zero \u003c\/i\u003eis almost unclassifiable—a stylistically original, genre-defying mix of classic Russian novel, American self-help book, Soviet math textbook, sly writing manual, and, at its center, a universal story with unforgettable lessons for us all.Divide Me by Zero is a keen, penetrating novel about the quest for love—romantic and otherwise—that drives one woman’s life. Lara Vapnyar brilliantly evokes (by way of, yes, math) a span of decades, a pair of continents, and a plethora of uneasy emotions. This book is so unflinchingly honest about the human condition that I couldn't put it down.   — Helen Phillips\u003cb\u003eLara Vapnyar\u003c\/b\u003e came to the US from Russia in 1994. She is a recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship, and Goldberg Prize for Jewish fiction. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThere Are Jews in My House\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMemoirs of a Muse, Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love, The Scent of Pine, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Still Here\u003c\/i\u003e. Her stories and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, New York Times, Harper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233095397605,"sku":"NP9781947793422","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781947793422.jpg?v=1767725260","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/divide-me-by-zero-isbn-9781947793422","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}