{"product_id":"the-gin-closet","title":"The Gin Closet","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom a bold  sensitive  and shrewd young writer: a hotly anticipated debut novel  about flesh  fear  poverty  privilege  and the sheer and inescapable brutality of love.  In the beginning  there was Tilly: fabulous and free  outrageous and untamable  vulnerable and terrified. Was it the Sixties that did her wrong  or the drugs  or the men  or was it the middle-class upbringing she couldnt abide? As a young woman  she flees home for the hollow neon underworld of Nevada  looking for pure souls and finding nothing but bad habits. She stays away for decades  working the streets and worse  eventually drinking herself to the brink of death in the middle of the desert. One day  after Tilly has spent nearly thirty years without a family  her niece shows up on the doorstep of her dusty trailer.  Stella has been leading her own life of empty promise in New York City. She makes her living booking Botox appointments and national-media appearances for a famous (and famously neurotic) \"inspirational\" writer by day; she complains about her job at warehouse parties in remote boroughs by night; she waits for her married lover to make time in his schedule to screw her over  softly; and she takes care of her ailing grandmother in Connecticut. Before Stellas grandmother dies  she tells Stella the truth about Tilly  her runaway daughter  and Stella decides to give up the vast and penetrating loneliness of the city to find this lost woman the family had never mentioned.  The Gin Closet unravels the strange and powerful intimacy that forms between Tilly and Stella as they move to San Francisco to make a home with Abe  Tillys overworked and elusive son. Shifting between the perspectives of both women  the narrative documents the construction of a fragile triangle that eventually breaks under its own weight.  With an uncanny ear for dialogue and a witty  unflinching candor about sex  love  and power  Leslie Jamison reminds us that no matter how unexpected its turns are  this life were given is all we have: the cruelties that unhinge us  the beauties that clarify us  the addictions that deform us  those fleeting possibilities of grace that fade as quickly as they come. In the words of writer Charles DAmbrosio  this extraordinary novel teaches us that \"history has its way  the body has its way  and the rebellions we believe in leave behind a bleak wisdom  if were lucky -- and defeat  if were not.\" The Gin Closet marks the debut of a stunning new talent in fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946990235701,"sku":"ByrdShop_1439153213","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781439153215.jpg?v=1769976313","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-gin-closet","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}