{"product_id":"constructing-a-nervous-system-9780525565710","title":"Constructing a Nervous System","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003cb\u003e?\u003c\/b\u003e From one of our most nuanced thinkers on the intersections of race, class, and feminism (Cathy Park Hong, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eMinor Feelings\u003c\/i\u003e) comes a memoir as electric as the title suggests (Maggie Nelson, author of \u003ci\u003eOn Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTIME\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine, \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOprah Daily, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Washington Post, Vulture, Buzzfeed, Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Pulitzer Prize-winning critic and memoirist Margo Jefferson has lived in the thrall of a cast of others?her parents and maternal grandmother,  jazz luminaries, writers, artists, athletes, and stars. These are the figures who thrill  and trouble her, and who have made up her sense of self as a person and as a writer.  In her much-anticipated follow-up to \u003ci\u003eNegroland\u003c\/i\u003e, Jefferson brings these figures to life  in a memoir of stunning originality, a performance of the elements that comprise  and occupy the mind of one of our foremost critics. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eConstructing a Nervous System\u003c\/i\u003e, Jefferson shatters her self into pieces and recombines them into a new and vital apparatus on the page, fusing the criticism  that she is known for, fragments of the family members she grieves for, and signal  moments from her life, as well as the words of those who have peopled her past and  accompanied her in her solitude, dramatized here like never before. Bing Crosby  and Ike Turner are among the author?s alter egos. The sounds of a jazz LP emerge  as the intimate and instructive sounds of a parent?s voice. W. E. B. Du Bois and  George Eliot meet illicitly. The muscles and movements of a ballerina are spliced  with those of an Olympic runner, becoming a template for what a black female  body can be. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe result is a wildly innovative work of depth and stirring beauty. It is defined  by fractures and dissonance, longing and ecstasy, and a persistent searching. Jefferson interrogates her own self as well as the act of writing memoir, and probes the  fissures at the center of American cultural life.","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525499003223,"sku":"9780525565710","price":14.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780525565710.jpg?v=1731860748","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constructing-a-nervous-system-9780525565710","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}