{"product_id":"woman-of-interest-a-memoir-isbn-9780063309869","title":"Woman of Interest: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMOST ANTICIPATED READ and MUST READ OF 2024: \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLitHub\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eEsquire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBookRiot\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVulture\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBrit \u0026amp; Co\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSouthern Living\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003cem\u003eWoman of Interest\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir wrapped in a mystery—an inward examination of family, identity, and self, but also an actual gumshoe detective story. Each extraordinary, prickly sentence is conjured with clarity and conflict. Funny, moving, mean—an exceptional book from an extraordinary writer.” —Kevin Nguyen, author of \u003cem\u003eNew Waves\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Dark, deeply funny. . . . Dashiell Hammett meets \u003cem\u003eFleabag\u003c\/em\u003e.”—\u003cem\u003eThe New Yorke\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003er\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first work of nonfiction: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her missing birth mother and, along the way, learning the priceless power of self-knowledge.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2020, Tracy O’Neill began to rethink her ideas of comfort and safety. Just out of a ten-year relationship and thirtysomething, she was driven by an acute awareness that the mysterious mother she’d never met might be dying somewhere in South Korea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter contacting a grizzled private investigator, O’Neill took his suggested homework to heart when he disappeared before the job was done, picking up the trail of clues and becoming her own hell-bent detective. Despite COVID-19, the promise of what she might discover—the possibility that her biological mother was her kind of outlaw, whose life could inspire her own—was too tempting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten like a mystery novel, \u003cem\u003eWoman of Interest\u003c\/em\u003e is a tale of self-discovery and fugitivity from convention that features a femme fatale of unique proportions, a former CIA operative with a criminal record, and a dogged investigator of radical connections outside the nuclear family. O’Neill gorgeously bends the detective genre to her own will as a writer, stepping out of the shadows of her own self-conception to illuminate the hopes of the woman of interest she is both chasing and becoming.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"[An] urgent, atmospheric memoir meets noir about family shadows, writing, and the pursuit of searching for answers we know we might never find.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A funny, effervescent addition to the memoir-as-detective-story genre.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNicole Chung, Esquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Know this: Tracy O’Neill has a novelist’s sense of narrative, the eye and ear of a poet, and the luminous mind of young philosopher—gifts woven into an innovative, propulsive, and trenchant memoir about the search for self and one’s roots as well as the evolution of family myths. This book, as is Tracy, is an exemplar of literary brilliance.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMitchell S. Jackson, author of Survival Math\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"O’Neill’s memoir absorbs and upends the form of a detective novel, with the author herself starring as both an investigator and the elusive subject of inquiry. … The narrative bends and evolves into something entirely new, telling the powerful, moving story of one woman’s journey toward an understanding of family and identity.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrime Reads, \"Best True Crime Memoirs of 2024\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"O’Neill’s prose brims with intelligence, energy, and humor.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Her memoir at times reads like a thriller and does so right at the beginning ... O’Neill captures in her writing the complexities of family and the pain caused by separation and by keeping secrets.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsian Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A] genre-expanding noir memoir-detective story, full of drama, intrigue, bizarre characters, even more bizarre behavior, and unexpected twists.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This is a work that is funny, moving, mean—an exceptional book from an extraordinary writer.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[O'Neill] writes with convincing and passionate introspection….\u003cem\u003eWoman of Interest\u003c\/em\u003e contains shining moments, such as a road trip with O’Neill’s newfound sister and the author’s distilled descriptions of childhood.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Dark, deeply funny ... Framing her narrative as a detective story, [O'Neill] writes in a comedic voice that’s at once old-fashioned and contemporary—Dashiell Hammett meets \u003cem\u003eFleabag\u003c\/em\u003e.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"O’Neill leverages her significant talent to infuse the tension of a hard-boiled mystery novel into an exploration of motherhood, identity, and belonging.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"One of the most distinctive prose stylists writing today…[O’Neill] approaches this deeply personal quest like an icy cool spy on an assignment of international espionage.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"There are some new summer books that have nothing to do with fiction, but read like a mystery novel. This is one of them.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBrit + Co\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"By choosing the tone of a noir, she inhabits a narrative space full of macabre humor, plot twists and offbeat characters. Her sentences run to the jangling and unpredictable rhythms of the classic detective story, with spare descriptions and snappy, deadpan dialogue. ... O’Neill reports on a quest that, while uniquely her own in terms of form and content, is also relatable to anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and wondered, 'Who am I, really? And who are my people?'\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating and immersive look at identity, dedication and unanswered questions.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTobias Carroll, InsideHook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The literature of the Korean adoptee typically circles around a fundamental void, an abyss: the loss of the biological mother….O’Neill elevates the subgenre, producing a memoir that is simultaneously an investigation, a noir with a femme fatale, and a darkly humorous tale of what happens when one meets the person who has everything and nothing to do with one’s life….Instead of the reparative gestures of a traditional adoptee memoir, \u003cem\u003eWoman of Interest\u003c\/em\u003e offers something darker, colder, more fraught, and ultimately, singular and transcendent.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePatrick Cottrell, Bomb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Resembles what experimental jazz would be like if it were a written narrative. Funny, shocking, and emotionally charged, the memoir takes readers on [O'Neill's] journey of self-discovery and finding what family means.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Cool, noir-tinted prose shot through with wit and compassion, O’Neill presents her inquiry as a sort of metaphysical detective story. Readers will be riveted.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly (starred review)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWoman of Interest\u003c\/em\u003e is a memoir wrapped in a mystery—an inward examination of family, identity, and self, but also an actual gumshoe detective story that takes the author to the other side of the world. With each extraordinary, prickly sentence, O’Neill’s search for her biological mother is conjured with clarity and conflict. This is a work that is funny, moving, mean—an exceptional book from an extraordinary writer.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKevin Nguyen, author of New Waves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"O’Neill is a true stylist; her prose brims with intelligence, energy, and humor. This memoir exploring identity and family is unlike any other.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWoman of Interest\u003c\/em\u003e is a brilliantly constructed Russian doll of a memoir—a profound meditation on language and desire within an insightful family mythology within a propulsive detective story. How does Tracy O’Neill hold it all together? With a rare combination of exquisite prose, good humor, and intellectual rigor.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNadia Owusu, author of Aftershocks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003cem\u003eWoman of Interest\u003c\/em\u003e, Tracy O’Neill solidifies her status as one of our greatest living prose stylists. With a singular wit and brilliance, O’Neill expands the horizons of the memoir, pushing the boundaries of the genre into the realm of detective noir and thrilling quest narrative. O’Neill’s formal innovations and bracing prose create a new and invigorating lens through which readers can view a universal theme: the desire to search for the self and one’s source.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChloé Cooper Jones, author of Easy Beauty\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperOne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890652377317,"sku":"NP9780063309869","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063309869.jpg?v=1730233770","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/woman-of-interest-a-memoir-isbn-9780063309869","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}