{"product_id":"ongoingness-the-end-of-a-diary-9781555977030","title":"Ongoingness: The End of a Diary","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOngoingness: The End of a Diary\u003c\/strong\u003e by Manguso, Sarah. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781555977030.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” ―The New Yorker\nIn 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.\nThen 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.\nOngoingness 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.\n“Bold, elegant, and honest . . . Ongoingness reads variously as an addict’s testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy.” ―The Paris Review\n“Manguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . . . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read.” ―Maria Popova, Brain Pickings\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44953119653941,"sku":"ByrdShop_1555977030","price":27.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781555977030_c31c4860-c64d-41fe-b5c2-7fba723a9d4a.jpg?v=1778901808","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/ongoingness-the-end-of-a-diary-9781555977030","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}