{"product_id":"big-reader-essays-9781988298818","title":"Big Reader: Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Susan Olding\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: FreeHand Books\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: FreeHand Books\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book about memory, loss, and a love of books from one of Canada's finest essayists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEver since childhood, Susan Olding has been a big reader, never without a book on the go. Not surprising, then, that she turns to the library to read her own life. From the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship with her new partner's daughter, from discovering Toronto as a young undergrad to, years later, watching her mother slowly go blind: through every experience, Olding crafts exquisite, searingly honest essays about what it means to be human, to be a woman--and to be a reader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, achingly beautiful collection about the slipperiness of memory and identity, the enduring legacy of loss, and the nuanced disappointments and joys of a reading life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"FreeHand Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968820920471,"sku":"9781988298818","price":1667.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781988298818.webp?v=1782919506","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/big-reader-essays-9781988298818","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}