{"product_id":"awkward-a-detour-paperback","title":"Awkward: A Detour - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Cappello\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Bestseller\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mary Cappello 's] inventive, associative taxonomy of discomfort . . .  is] revelatory indeed.\" --\u003cb\u003eMARK DOTY\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eDog Years: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eFire to Fire: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A wonderful, multi-layered piece of writing, with all the insight of great cultural criticism and all the emotional pull of memoir. A fascinating book.\" --\u003cb\u003eSARAH WATERS\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Night Watch\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Little Stranger\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWithout awkwardness we would not know grace, stability, or balance. Yet no one before Mary Cappello has turned such a penetrating gaze on this misunderstood condition. Fearlessly exploring the ambiguous borders of identity, she mines her own life journeys--from Russia, to Italy, to the far corners of her heart and the depths of a literary or cinematic text--to decipher the powerful messages that awkwardness can transmit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Cappello\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books of literary nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eAwkward: A Detour\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eCalled Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, \u003c\/i\u003e which won a \u003ci\u003eForeWord Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publishers Prize, and \u003ci\u003eSwallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them.\u003c\/i\u003e Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island and Lucerne-in-Maine, Maine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Cappello\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of four books of literary nonfiction, including \u003ci\u003eAwkward: A Detour\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, \u003ci\u003eCalled Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, \u003c\/i\u003e which won a \u003ci\u003eForeWord Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year Award and an Independent Publishers Prize, and \u003ci\u003eSwallow: Foreign Bodies, Their Ingestion, Inspiration, and the Curious Doctor Who Extracted Them.\u003c\/i\u003e Her work has been featured in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times, Salon, Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, NPR, in guest author blogs for Powell's Books, and on five separate occasions as Notable Essay of the Year in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, The Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination from Teachers and Writers Collaborative, and the Dorothea Lange-Paul Taylor Prize from Duke University's Center for Documentary Studies. Professor of English at the University of Rhode Island, she lives in Providence, Rhode Island and Lucerne-in-Maine, Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 8.97 x 6.34 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 01, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700523831359,"sku":"9781934137017","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/9ff6a7d0e4057f5a14ed08a3c82d65da.webp?v=1765017075","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/awkward-a-detour-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}