{"product_id":"seeing-as-your-shoes-are-soon-to-be-on-fire-isbn-9781593766498","title":"Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon to be on Fire","description":"Liza Monroy’s new book is collection of deeply personal essays that tackle the universal themes of romantic and familial love, fate and chance, all told in a humorous and intelligent manner that keeps the reader yearning for more. Created in the wake of Liza's popular essays– including her piece for the \u003ci\u003eModern Love\u003c\/i\u003e column in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e — \u003ci\u003eSeeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles Liza's many misadventures in her quest for love. These misadventures span a variety of countries and a variety of men, all bound together under the watchful eye of her eccentric, single mother, a profiler for the U.S. State Department, who is soon using her professional aptitude to weed out the men in her daughter’s path.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFilled with quirky details and archetypal characters from our everyday lives, with stories that are both wildly hilarious and deeply heartfelt, \u003ci\u003eSeeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is both a vulnerably open testament to Liza's personal experiences and an intriguing work that confronts the odds of finding love and intimacy in the increasingly depersonalized world of technology.\"Monroy chronicles her efforts to find lasting love with the (often unsolicited) advice of her opinionated mother, a retired U.S. visa screener referred to as “The Profiler\"... [she] provides insight into managing expectations and the layers of experience, how we can construct a vivid romantic narrative around someone when we are merely a “bit player” in their own story... it is interesting to watch Monroy learn her lessons, to stop romanticizing her partners or assigning them to neat boxes, to assert boundaries and rules, even if they get broken. When she finally gets her happy ending, it feels earned. —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thrilling, enigmatic, wow! and beautifully observed—these are just a few of the things I’ve written in the margins of these essays. Liza Monroy’s writing is as fun as it is profound, as lively as it is moving—this is a book you’ll want to tell people about.” —Elizabeth McKenzie, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Portable Veblen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Unlike some of the skinflint, unreliable, or downright psychotic male suitors who appear in her outstanding memoir, Liza Monroy is a great date – a masterful storyteller, witty, urbane, tender, and hilarious. This is a fast-paced, deftly written, unsparing, and hilarious journey through the landscape of bad love. Monroy’s imperious, charming, boyfriend-deporting Mom, AKA The Profiler, is a memoir character for the ages; she seems to have emerged, fully formed, from the pages of a Philip Roth novel.” —Dan White, author of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Cactus Eaters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiza Monroy\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marriage Act: The Risk I Took to Keep My Best Friend in America...And What It Taught Us about Love\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMexican High\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays and articles have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has also been featured in various anthologies, including \u003ci\u003eGoodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOne Big Family\u003c\/i\u003e. Liza has taught writing at Columbia University, UCLA Extension, and UC Santa Cruz. She currently lives in Santa Cruz, California.","brand":"Soft Skull","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46301619028197,"sku":"NP9781593766498","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781593766498.jpg?v=1767736302","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/seeing-as-your-shoes-are-soon-to-be-on-fire-isbn-9781593766498","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}