{"product_id":"9781250338068","title":"Blackouts","description":"\u003cp\u003eTorres, Justin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"desc_summary1250338069-content\" class=\"expandContent\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e“Sweeping, ingenious . . . A kiss to build a dream on.” —Maureen Corrigan, NPR’s\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eFresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along—\u003ci\u003eSex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns\u003c\/i\u003e. This book contains accounts collected in the early twentieth century from queer subjects by a queer researcher, Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was then co-opted by a committee, her name buried. The voices of these subjects have been filtered, muted, but it is possible to hear them from within and beyond the text, which, in Juan’s tattered volumes, has been redacted with black marker on nearly every page.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Juan waits for his end, he and the narrator recount for each other moments of joy and oblivion; they resurrect loves, lives, mothers, fathers, minor heroes. In telling their own stories and the story of the book, they resist the ravages of memory and time. The past is with us, beside us, ahead of us; what are we to create from its gaps and erasures?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA book about storytelling—its legacies, dangers, delights, and potential for change—and a bold exploration of form, art, and love, Justin Torres’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlackouts\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eis a reclamation of ransacked history, a celebration of defiance, and a transformative encounter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48142206501097,"sku":"9781250338068","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0406\/5548\/7129\/files\/9781250338068_40f4b.jpg?v=1740165774","url":"https:\/\/redstickreads.com\/products\/9781250338068","provider":"Red Stick Reads","version":"1.0","type":"link"}