{"product_id":"the-wanting-life-paperback","title":"The Wanting Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMark Rader\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eSELECTED AS A TOP 10 DEBUT BY THE AMERICAN BOOKSELLERS' ASSOCIATION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003eA GREAT GROUP READS 2020 BOOK CLUB SELECTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 HONORED AUTHOR, WISCONSIN LITERARY COUNCIL\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\"Mark Rader's \u003ci\u003eThe Wanting Life\u003c\/i\u003e is somehow both quiet and deeply unsettling. A profound meditation on what we owe others and also ourselves, it balances the pleasure of getting to know a handful of vivid characters with the disconcerting awareness that their moral choices are, seeming by design, as impossible as our own.\" ―\u003cb\u003eRichard Russo, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNobody's Fool\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eSet in Rome, Cape Cod, and Wisconsin over the course of the summer of 2009, and Rome during the spring of 1970, \u003ci\u003eThe Wanting Life\u003c\/i\u003e tells the intertwined story of three members of the Novak family: Father Paul, a closeted gay Catholic priest who's dying of cancer and has secrets he desperately wants to share; Britta, his self-destructive sister and caretaker, who's struggling to find meaning in a world without her beloved husband; and Maura, Britta's daughter--a thirty-nine-year-old artist who's facing a choice between her husband and two children, or the man she believes is her one, true love.\u003cbr\u003eFeaturing one of most unconventional love stories you'll read this year, \u003ci\u003eThe Wanting Life\u003c\/i\u003e is both a compulsively readable family drama about the toll that secrets and loyalty can take on us, and a gorgeous meditation on the comforts (and limits) of faith and intimacy that calls to mind novels like Marilynne Robinson's \u003ci\u003eHome\u003c\/i\u003e, Alice McDermott's \u003ci\u003eCharming Billy\u003c\/i\u003e, and Julian Barnes' \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMark Rader has had stories published in Glimmer Train, Epoch, The Southern Review and shortlisted for an O. Henry Award, the Best American Non-Required Reading anthology, and a Pushcart Prize. He has an MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University and lives in Chicago with his wife and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.2 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 25, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42700440895551,"sku":"9781944700997","price":21.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/225229603d0404266286cc60b7505202.webp?v=1765016752","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-wanting-life-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}