{"product_id":"sleep-isbn-9780593851982","title":"Sleep","description":"\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eAN \u003ci\u003eOPRAH DAILY\u003c\/i\u003e AND \u003ci\u003eREAL SIMPLE \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Incredibly moving.\" – Ann Patchett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Propulsive and funny and heartbreaking.” —J. Courtney Sullivan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An exceptionally moving novel. Jones takes her cues from writers like John Cheever, Richard Yates and Virginia Woolf.\"—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Profoundly beautiful.\"— NPR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom a dazzling new talent, the story of a newly divorced young mother forced to reckon with the secrets of her own childhood when she brings her daughters back to the big house where she was raised.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvery parent exists inside of two families simultaneously – the one she was born into, and the one she has made. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTen-year-old Margaret hides beneath a blackberry bush in her family’s verdant backyard while her brother hunts for her in a game of flashlight tag. Hers is a childhood of sunlit swimming pools and Saturday morning pancakes and a devoted best friend, but her family life requires careful maintenance. Her mother can be as brittle and exacting as she is loving, and her father and brother assume familiar, if uncomfortable, models of masculinity. Then late one summer, everything changes. After a series of confusing transgressions, the simple pleasures of girlhood, slip away. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwenty-five years later, Margaret hides under her parents’ bed, waiting for her young daughters to find her in a game of hide and seek. She’s newly divorced and navigating her life as a co-parent, while discovering the pleasures of a new lover. But some part of her is still under the blackberry bush, punched out of time. Called upon to be a mother to her daughters, and a daughter to her mother, she must reckon with the echoes and refractions between the past and the present, what it means to keep a child safe, and how much of our lives are our own, alone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWarm and generous, unflinchingly human, and ultimately joyful and empowering, SLEEP is about the cycles of motherhood and childhood, the cost of secrets and the burden of love, and what’s on the other side of silence: the world, rich in possibility.\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eSleep\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An exceptionally moving novel. Jones takes her cues from writers like John Cheever, Richard Yates and Virginia Woolf, all masters of the repressed and unsayable. She covers the same material — the resentments and traumas that smolder in families wrapped in a suburban idyll — and with similar delicacy and humor. But \u003ci\u003eSleep\u003c\/i\u003e also introduces a measure of optimism and generosity I found refreshing.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Hypnotic... Jones crafts a nuanced and powerful exploration of a woman’s struggle to come to terms with her past… a masterpiece of carefully crafted perspective and tone…Margaret’s plight may feel tragic, but it’s transformed by sheer force of will — and Jones’s tempered prose — into something heroic, even hopeful.\"\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eIs it possible to have a childhood that is both picture-perfect and perfectly awful? And if so, how much of the baggage will you end up carrying 20-plus years later when you have children of your own? Honor Jones explores these questions in a quietly, profoundly beautiful new novel titled \u003ci\u003eSleep\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cb\u003e—NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jones’s prose is spare but effervescent, her evocation of childhood is pitch-perfect, and she handles delicate subject matters in adroit and surprising ways.” \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A haunting and beautiful novel about a desperate attempt to live in the present despite the tidal pull of the past…Incredibly moving.\" \u003cb\u003e—Ann Patchett, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTom Lake\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“SLEEP marks the arrival of an astonishing new voice in the world of literary fiction. Honor Jones writes with honesty and courage about life’s complications and contradictions. This novel is propulsive and funny and heartbreaking.”\u003cb\u003e —J. Courtney Sullivan,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003ebestselling author of\u003ci\u003e The Cliffs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Heartbreaking, sexy, and full of humor . . . With elegant language and profound insight, Honor Jones transforms a story of family secrets into something utterly fresh, original, and exhilarating.” \u003cb\u003e—Xochitl Gonzalez, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAnita De Monte Laughs Last\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“A magnetic, breathtaking novel. I could not put it down and will be recommending it to everyone I know.”-- \u003cb\u003eCherie Jones, author of \u003ci\u003eHow the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Beautiful, bruising, incisive and heartfelt. \u003ci\u003eSleep\u003c\/i\u003e takes a moving, maddening, funny and searing look at childhood, family and marriage. I adored it.” -- \u003cb\u003eChris Whitaker, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling \u003ci\u003e­\u003c\/i\u003eauthor of \u003ci\u003eAll the Colors of the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303125831909,"sku":"NP9780593851982","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593851982.jpg?v=1767736753","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/sleep-isbn-9780593851982","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}