{"product_id":"discipline","title":"Discipline","description":"\u003cb\u003eA taut, electrifying debut about a woman forced to confront unsettling truths about herself, her past, and the life she rebuilt following a ruinous affair with her former mentor, from \"a writer to keep a close eye on\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Precise and spellbinding . . . That knotty relationship, as propulsive as it is maddening, forces the reader to wonder: How do you separate your art from the people--and painful experiences--that helped to forge it?\"--\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE SEASON: \u003ci\u003eBustle, Debutiful, Harper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have the sense that something is being drawn between us. Not drawn as in line but as in arrow pulled back. Yet I don't know which of us holds the bow, and which of us faces the arrow.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eChristine is on tour for her novel, a revenge fantasy based on a real-life relationship gone bad with an older professor ten years prior. Now on the road, she's seeking answers--about how to live a good life and what it means to make art--through intimate conversations with strangers, past lovers, and friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when the antagonist of her novel--her old painting professor--reaches out in a series of sly communiques after years of silence to tell her that he's read her book, Christine must reckon with what it means to lose the reins of a narrative she wrote precisely to maintain control. When her professor invites her to join him at his house, on a remote island off the coast of Maine, their encounter threatens to change the very foundations of her life as she's imagined it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA pristine and provocative high-wire act toggling the fictions we construct for ourselves just to survive and the possibilities that lie beyond them, \u003ci\u003eDiscipline\u003c\/i\u003e launches a spellbinding inquiry into the nature of art-making and rigor, intimacy and attention, punishment and release.","brand":"Larissa Pham","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52091884110125,"sku":"BS-8XD-979648","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/discipline-4263885.jpg?v=1780161189","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/discipline","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}