{"product_id":"kaleidoscope","title":"Kaleidoscope","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eInheritance\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSignal Fires\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e delivers her most ambitious work yet: an intricately woven, luminous memoir about a sudden upheaval in late middle age--for readers of Patti Smith's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eM Train\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e and Joan Didion's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Year of Magical Thinking\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt was Christmastime in the West Village when the world shifted before her eyes. String lights melted into pools of color, passersby became shapes in the night, and she knew: she would never see the world the same way again--soon, she might not be able to see it at all. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt had been less than a year since Dani Shapiro was diagnosed with a rare, life-threatening illness, and learned that the cure would likely cost her sight. The prospect would frighten anyone, but for a writer--an artist whose whole vocation is attention--it threatened the very source of her work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd yet, as her own face blurred in the mirror, Shapiro found herself paying attention in new ways: Confronted with the possibility of losing one way of seeing, she began discovering another. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow are we reintroduced to ourselves when the narrative changes? Shapiro is thrown headlong into her own past. With her trademark intimacy and candor, she shifts fluidly through time, exploring friendships, family, marriage, identity, and the creative life with renewed urgency--circling the blind spots we all carry. Growing older, she finds, doesn't diminish us. It makes us kaleidoscopes: every self we have ever been, turning alongside the ones whose stories have yet to unfold. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt once meditative and propulsive, \u003ci\u003eKaleidoscope\u003c\/i\u003e is Shapiro's most finely wrought work to date--an impressionistic marvel of a memoir about learning to see our lives with fierce clarity, even as the world dissolves at the edges.","brand":"Little Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48848028729549,"sku":"9780316604048","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_bb31d4de-b283-4d97-8dce-eeecda7e6dc3.jpg?v=1793394438","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/kaleidoscope","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}