{"product_id":"ongoingness-the-end-of-a-diary-1555977650","title":"Ongoingness: The End of a Diary","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1555977650\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Manguso, Sarah\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Manguso] has written the memoir we didnt realize we needed. -The New YorkerIn Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened, she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time.Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary-it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.Bold, elegant, and honest . . . Ongoingness reads variously as an addicts testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy. -The Paris ReviewManguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . . . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read. -Maria Popova, Brain Pickings\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52164529848608,"sku":"NEW1555977650","price":18.48,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71Cl9MLyX_L.jpg?v=1786220835","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/ongoingness-the-end-of-a-diary-1555977650","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}