{"product_id":"9781555977658","title":"Ongoingness: The End of a Diary","description":"\u003cb\u003e“[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. “I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,” she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary—it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bold, elegant, and honest . . . \u003ci\u003eOngoingness\u003c\/i\u003e reads variously as an addict’s testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Manguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . . . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read.” —Maria Popova,\u003ci\u003e Brain Pickings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43284001947709,"sku":"9781555977658","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781555977658_p0.jpg?v=1781930054","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781555977658","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}