{"product_id":"dont-be-a-stranger-a-novel","title":"Don't Be a Stranger: A Novel","description":"THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE • A mesmerizing new novel from the author of Evening: the story of a woman swept into a love affair at mid-life • A luminous story about erotic obsession, the hunger for intimacy, communication, and oblivion that will appeal to readers of Miranda July's All Fours\n\n“Minot exquisitely explores desire and denial, intimacy and illusion in a ravishing, haunting, and insightful tale of sexual ecstasy and emotional torment, integrity and creativity, self and motherhood.” —Booklist (starred review)\n\n\"Minot’s writing is like a diamond knife on ice.” —Elizabeth Strout, Pulitzer Prize winning author\n\nIvy Cooper is 52 years old when Ansel Fleming first walks into her life. Twenty years her junior, a musician newly released from prison on a minor drug charge, Ansel’s beguiling good looks and quiet intensity instantly seduce her. Despite the gulf between their ages and experience the physical chemistry between them is overpowering, and over the heady weeks and months that follow Ivy finds her life bifurcated by his presence: On the surface she is a responsible mother, managing the demands of friends, an ex-husband, home; but emotionally, psychologically, sexually, she is consumed by desire and increasingly alive only in the stolen moments-out-of-time, with Ansel in her bed.\n\nDon't Be a Stranger is a gripping, sensual, and provocative work from one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary fiction.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0593802446\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.0593802446.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Minot, Susan\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41561404833850,"sku":"DBV.0593802446.VG","price":8.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/0593802446-0.jpg?v=1785207359","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/dont-be-a-stranger-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}