{"product_id":"appointment-hc","title":"Appointment HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“A darkly funny untangling of national and sexual identity.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e * “Transgressive...Incendiary.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New Yorker \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e* “A furious comic monologue...with a disregard for propriety worthy of Alexander Portnoy.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times Book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e * “S\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eexy, hilarious, and subversive.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Paris Review \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFor readers of Ottessa Moshfegh and Han Kang, a whip-smart debut novel in which a woman on the verge of major change addresses her doctor in a stream of consciousness narrative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her life and desires, her struggles with her sexuality and identity. Born and raised in Germany, she has been living in London for several years, determined to break free from her family origins and her haunted homeland. But the recent death of her grandfather, and an unexpected inheritance, make it clear that you cannot easily outrun your own shame, whether it be physical, familial, historical, national, or all of the above.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52283302772967,"sku":null,"price":5.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/41l6SDoR_uL.webp?v=1783381047","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/appointment-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}