{"product_id":"tumbledown-a-novel-1555976867","title":"Tumbledown: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1555976867\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Boswell, Robert\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A winning ensemble cast of therapists and patients make stabs at sanity in Robert Boswell's mordantly funny novel Tumbledown.\" -Vanity Fair\"A complicated, nuanced look at human experience and the insights into that experience contributed by people of varying kinds of intelligence.\" -The Washington Post\"A moving and often darkly hilarious meditation on sanity.\" -Houston Chronicle\"A deft twining of irony and insight on nearly every page . . . Tumbledown wryly mines the heartache in emotional disturbances, some present from birth and the rest brought on by the business of living.\" -The New York Times\"Within a suspenseful plot spiked with love triangles and flashbacks, Boswell renders each complex psyche and scene with magnificent precision and penetrating vision, fine-tuning our definitions of disorder and healing and deepening our perception of what it is to be normal, what it is to be human.\" -Booklist (starred review)\"Like a funnier One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, this story focuses on a therapist and his wild yet well-meaning patients, bumbling through life, trying to make sense of the world and one another.\" -O, The Oprah Magazine, Ten Titles to Pick Up Now\"Boswell can write the most refreshingly old-fashioned kind of narrative: one that evokes deep sympathy for all its characters . . . All the novel's characters know that in adulthood they're supposed to settle for what could pass for a normal life. Maybe it was a C- sort of life, but that was a passing grade.' Still, they want to keep hope, wonder and love in their lives . . . Without a whiff of sentimentality, he shows exactly how elusive such balance can be.\" -The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67886140981536,"sku":"NEW1555976867","price":18.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/818FAcJD2ZL.jpg?v=1792519472","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/tumbledown-a-novel-1555976867","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}