{"product_id":"9781566893091","title":"Hold It 'Til It Hurts","description":"\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2013 PEN\/Faulkner Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The magnificence of \u003ci\u003eHold It 'Til It Hurts\u003c\/i\u003e is not only in the prose and the story but also in the book's great big beating heart. These complex and compelling characters and the wizardry of Johnson's storytelling will dazzle and move you from first page to last. Novels don't teach us how to live but \u003ci\u003eHold It 'Til It Hurts\u003c\/i\u003e will make you hush and wonder.\"—Anthony Swofford, author of \u003ci\u003eJarhead\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This rich and sophisticated first novel brings together pleasures rarely found in one book: \u003ci\u003eHold It 'Til It Hurts \u003c\/i\u003eis a novel about war that goes in search of passionate love, a dreamy thriller, a sprawling mystery, a classical quest for a lost brother in which the shadowy quarry is clearly the seeker’s own self, and a meditation on family and racial identity that makes its forerunners in American fiction look innocent by comparison.\"—Jaimy Gordon, National Book Award winner for \u003ci\u003eLord of Misrule\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Achilles Conroy and his brother Troy return from a tour of duty in Afghanistan, their white mother presents them with the key to their past: envelopes containing details about their respective birth parents. After Troy disappears, Achilles—always his brother’s keeper—embarks on a harrowing journey in search of Troy, an experience that will change him forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHeartbreaking, intimate, and at times disturbing, \u003ci\u003eHold It ’Til It Hurts\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern-day odyssey through war, adventure, disaster, and love, and explores how people who do not define themselves by race make sense of a world that does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eT. Geronimo Johnson\u003c\/b\u003e was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His fiction and poetry have appeared in \u003ci\u003eBest New American Voices\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIndiana Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eIlluminations\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. A graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Johnson teaches writing at the University of California-Berkeley. \u003ci\u003eHold It 'Til It Hurts\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43085154811965,"sku":"9781566893091","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9781566893091_p0.jpg?v=1775255608","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/products\/9781566893091","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}