{"product_id":"nonfiction-isbn-9781959030317","title":"Nonfiction","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Raw-nerved and plangent.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eEntrancing.”\u003ci\u003e—ELLE,\u003c\/i\u003e A Best Book of 2024 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Glitteringly painful.”—Rachel Cusk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis is definitely not a ghost story. But for a while after you’re gone, I see you everywhere. Every ragged young person sitting huddled on a pavement, every stretched-out body under cardboard in a shop doorway.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eTwo parents stand by powerlessly as their only child seems intent on destroying herself. As the mother—a novelist—attempts to understand her daughter, she finds herself revisiting her own uneasy, unresolved relationship with her mother. Weaving between childhoods past and present, laced with temptation and betrayal, \u003ci\u003eNonfiction: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e is an unflinching account of a mother, daughter, wife, and author reckoning with the world around her. But can a writer ever be trusted with the truth of her own story?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClear-eyed, lacerating, and fearless, Julie Myerson’s \u003ci\u003eNonfiction: A Novel\u003c\/i\u003e explores maternal love as an emotional foundation to both crave and fear. A hauntingly beautiful and deeply moving love letter from a mother to a daughter, this is a tale of damage and addiction, recovery and creativity, compassion and love.\"Raw-nerved and plangent. . . . a sustained meditation on the trials of family, marriage, and creativity.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Affecting. . . . poignant.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Entrancing. . . . [A] gutting feat of love.\"—\u003cb\u003eELLE, A Best Book of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Compelling. . . . feels ultimately like the truth.\"—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A tale of art, addiction, and the ties that bind mothers and daughters, \u003ci\u003eNonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e promises to devastate.\" —\u003cb\u003eThe Millions, A Most Anticipated Book of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Urgent. . . . I couldn’t stop reading it.\"—\u003cb\u003eLitHub, A Most Anticipated Book of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A psychological, moving novel that takes to task the very nature of storytelling.\"—\u003cb\u003eNYLON, A Best Book of January\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Haunting. . . . vibrant. . . . realistic and heartbreaking. . . [a] high-wire act.\"—\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Blistering. . . . reading this book felt like being haunted by yourself, by your daughter, by your mother — by all the versions of yourself and those your love, and all the stories you will and won’t be able to tell about them.\"—\u003cb\u003ePowell's\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A heartbreaking family tale and a strong piece of writing. It examines marriage, fidelity, motherhood, the creative impulse and addiction, all with a keen eye and a delicate heart.\"—\u003cb\u003eBook Reporter\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This glitteringly painful novel, so steady and clear in its analysis of addiction, creativity, and the factors that determine female and familial identity, is the book [Myerson] was intended to write, and she has elevated it into a template for the re-making of self by means of a transformative and radical honesty.\"—\u003cb\u003eRachel Cusk\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Julie Myerson’s \u003ci\u003eNonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e is a magic trick of a novel in which every gut-punch lands and every playful gesture delights. A tour-de-force of concentration and tone, it’s also a masterclass in the existential ransom that is motherhood.\" —\u003cb\u003eJoshua Ferris\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Courageous, compassionate, and devastating.\"—\u003cb\u003eAndrew Solomon\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Myerson writes with devastating clarity about the most complex and troubling of emotions. \u003ci\u003eNonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e is painful, powerful, and utterly compelling.\" —\u003cb\u003eSarah Waters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Searing and tragic and cleverly layered, this thought-provoking novel about mothers and daughters, guilt and responsibility, fiction and truth, took me to the dark interior of family relationships and left me heart-broken. Just wonderful.\"—\u003cb\u003eClaire Fuller\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In plain, unflinching sentences, Julie Myerson takes us right into a family's broken heart. Nonfiction might be a novel, but it feels like the truth. A raw, urgent, and compulsive read.\"—\u003cb\u003eRupert Thomson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Nonfiction\u003c\/i\u003e is compassionate, intelligent and bloody novel, where trust and love, motherhood and creativity crash and break on the rocks of addiction, treachery and confusion. Myerson's combination of ferocity and tenderness is unique.\" —\u003cb\u003eLouisa Young\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Utterly compelling and painfully truthful.\"—\u003cb\u003ePolly Findlay\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is such a compulsive read. Searingly honest and raw, Julie Myerson's new novel cuts to the heart of emotions we might try to evade, because they're just too overwhelming.\"—\u003cb\u003eDeborah Moggach\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I found it truly remarkable, simultaneously honest and tricksy, deeply emotional and cunningly constructed, like having a magician explain an unbelievable trick even as she astonishes you with it. She manages to speak with heartbreaking clarity about the damage of addiction within a family and at the same time to examine the rights and responsibilities of the professional writer of fiction to her subject matter, herself and her readers. . . . I was moved and dazzled in equal measure.\"—\u003cb\u003eOlivia Hetreed\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulie Myerson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten novels, including the bestselling \u003ci\u003eSomething Might Happen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Stopped Heart\u003c\/i\u003e, and three works of nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eHome: The Story of Everyone Who Ever Lived in Our House\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Child\u003c\/i\u003e. As a critic and columnist, she has written for many newspapers including \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eFT\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper’s Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and she was a regular guest on BBC TV's Newsnight Review. 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