{"product_id":"apples-oranges-isbn-9781609807498","title":"Apples \u0026 Oranges","description":"Sexuality and identity are the twin goddesses that lend Jan Clausen’s \u003ci\u003eApples \u0026amp; Oranges\u003c\/i\u003e its grace and urgency. In the late 1980s, after more than a decade living within a strong Brooklyn lesbian community with her female lover and their daughter, Clausen travels to a war zone in Nicaragua, where she falls in love with a West Indian male lawyer. Her memoir is brimming with intimate physical and emotional details of her personal journey, but perhaps what sets it apart are the deeply informed historical and philosophical lenses through which she examines her own experience. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDeeply felt, intensely thoughtful, gorgeously written, \u003ci\u003eApples \u0026amp; Oranges\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the power and peril of desire. It is also a dazzling examination of the ways in which our search for love and happiness intersect. What does it mean to be straight? What does it mean to be queer? Jan Clausen gives us not one but many answers to these questions.\"Jan Clausen's memoir is more relevant now than ever. \u003ci\u003eApples \u0026amp; Oranges \u003c\/i\u003eis at once a riveting personal narrative about the sacrifices we make for love, and an intellectual examination of the ways that intimacy, identity, and community entangle in our lives and selves. It is a book that shows us with grace and stirring honesty how severing an attachment—to our lovers, to our self-conceptions—can collapse everything we thought permanent, and reveal what truly is.\" \u003cb\u003e—Melissa Febos, author of \u003ci\u003eWhip Smart \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eAbandon Me\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJAN CLAUSEN\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of a dozen books in a range of genres, most recently the hybrid poetic text \u003ci\u003eVeiled Spill: A Sequence \u003c\/i\u003eand the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eIf You Like Difficulty.\u003c\/i\u003e Prose titles include a volume of stories (\u003ci\u003eMother, Sister, Daughter, Lover\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand two novels: \u003ci\u003eSinking, Stealing\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Prosperine Papers. \u003c\/i\u003eClausen's poetry and fiction appear widely in journals and anthologies; she has contributed book reviews and literary journalism to \u003ci\u003eBoston Review, Ms., The Nation, Poets \u0026amp; Writers, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Women's Review of Books. \u003c\/i\u003eA proud Brooklyn resident since 1974, she teaches in the Goddard College MFA in Writing Program and at New York University.","brand":"Seven Stories Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304217235685,"sku":"NP9781609807498","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781609807498.jpg?v=1767721694","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/apples-oranges-isbn-9781609807498","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}