{"product_id":"an-unnecessary-womanbooks","title":"An Unnecessary Woman","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eWinner of the California Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the National Book Award\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeautiful and absorbing.” \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Unnecessary Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a breathtaking portrait of one reclusive woman’s late-life crisis, which garnered a wave of rave reviews and love letters to Alameddine’s cranky yet charming septuagenarian protagonist, Aaliya, a character you ?can’t help but love” (NPR). Aaliya’s insightful musings on literature, philosophy, and art are invaded by memories of the Lebanese Civil War and her volatile past. As she tries to overcome her aging body and spontaneous emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left. Here, the gifted Rabih Alameddine has given us a nuanced rendering of one woman's life in the Middle East and an enduring ode to literature and its power to define who we are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA paean to the transformative power of reading, to the intellectual asylum from one’s circumstances found in the life of the mind.” \u003ci\u003eLA Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[The novel] throbs with energy?[Aaliya’s] inventive way with words gives unfailing pleasure, no matter how dark the events she describes, how painful the emotions she reveals.” \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Alameddine, Rabih","offers":[{"title":"Hardback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47481647104224,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/18114449.jpg?v=1749582961","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/an-unnecessary-womanbooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}