{"product_id":"sita-9780374265465","title":"Sita","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wrenching and intimate autobiography  \"Sita\" is an unsparing  moment-by-moment record of the fading of love  with all of its agony and false-dawn respites. For the first time  the original text of \"Sita\" is accompanied by the first of Milletts moving prose elegies  written after Sita committed suicide. This lament lends new resonance to the original text and gives the reader a fuller understanding of the mercurial devotion that bound the two women to each other. This reissue also features a new preface by the author.\"Sita\" follows the disintegration of Milletts love affair with a woman who is ten years her senior  a veteran of several marriages  and the mother of grown children. Fiery  seductive  elegant  and exotic  \"Sita\" captivates Millett in every sense  offering unimagined pleasure and much-needed emotional security. One day  however  all this changes. Arriving from New York to spend half the year in Berkeley  as they had arranged  Millett is appalled to find the house - their house - overrun with Sitas troubled children and their hangers-on.Amid this unexpected chaos  she struggles with searing jealousy and self-doubt to salvage her relationship with Sita  who is often preoccupied  impatient  and cold  and who frequently disappears for assignations with male lovers. With remarkable candor  Millett charts her months with Sita and the inexorable shift from passionate abandon to abandonment. As each fragile thread of their love dissolves  Millett dwells on what drew them together  recounting all the hopes  tricks  and evasions that made up their erotic dance. Obsessive and impassioned  \"Sita\" speaks with a sharp immediacy to everyone who has ever experienced the exhilaration and despair of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67924883505205,"sku":"ByrdShop_0374265461","price":68.69,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780374265465.jpg?v=1794143296","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/sita-9780374265465","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}