{"product_id":"what-about-the-rest-of-your-life","title":"What About the Rest of Your Life","description":"In their soaring and urgent debut memoir  Sung Yim captures a sleepy sad slice of Americana recognizable to anyone whos driven past a strip mall at midnight. Equal parts grim and buoyant  here is an intimate portrait of trauma  family  addiction  and body. What About the Rest of Your Life exposes the harrowing terrain where there is no boundary between love and abuse. Unapologetically raw  Yim reinvents the recovery narrative through an immigrants lens.  PRAISE FOR WHAT ABOUT THE REST OF YOUR LIFE:  So achingly beautiful I want to sing. I want to set things on fire. I want to put this book in your hands and say  Here. You have to read this. Right goddamn now.  -Megan Stielstra  The Wrong Way to Save Your Life  Never before has a book made me fall in love so quickly. What About the Rest of Your Life signals a courageous  crucial  and authentic new voice in literature.\"  -Jenny Boully  Book of Beginnings and Endings  \"Sung Yim has absorbed and chronicled the new unsettled America in a memoir that vibrates with grief as it attempts to uncover the nexus of masked identities in the Midwest. Theirs is the voice of a generation who is left with the pieces of a disassembled culture. What About the Rest of Your Life is a sustained movement of life  its rawness  gaping holes  and found joys.\"  -ReLynn Hansen  author of To Some Women I Have Known  Read this book built from dopamine and the hollows of its absence  this book Im obsessed with. It will gut you and it will refill you.\"  -Elissa Washuta  My Body Is a Book of Rules  This book is fucking brilliant.  -Glenn Taylor  A Hanging at Cinder Bottom  The kind of book that gets you somewhere new  somewhere more honest and shot through with the hard emotion of living. A striking debut.  -T Fleischmann  Syzygy  Beauty: An Essay  \"Sung Yim has written an enthralling memoir. Its powerful  vulnerable  and deeply pleasurable. Its a harrowing house fire of a book. Everything that Sung Yim burns up with their excellent prose becomes sanctified  gutted  and glorious.\"  -David Stuart MacLean  The Answer to the Riddle Is Me","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44855852171317,"sku":"ByrdShop_0983632766","price":23.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/ByrdShop_0983632766.jpg?v=1765968509","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/what-about-the-rest-of-your-life","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}