{"product_id":"speak-softly-among-icebergs-our-hours-and-other-media-melting-fast-9781961206298","title":"Speak Softly Among Icebergs: our hours, and other media melting fast","description":"\u003cp\u003eA grief-wrought creature comes to terms with the suicide of his only child and a subsequent marital demise. He tries any and nearly every aid possible to buoy his sanity: drugs, sex, talk therapy and family gossip; travel near and far (real+imagined?), church and family traditions; other occupations and more schooling; literary therapy: writing to vent and better understand the world he wonders, wanders should he live in--\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecalling his own childhood, the man settles on those formative years with the lesbian\/gf Berry--what nearly ended with a pregnancy unresolved. A child born and given away.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMEANWHILE, he happens upon an inheritance, a trunk containing a long-dead family member's unpublished travelogue: centering largely on that man's own secrets, we explore the dead relation's escapades in the former Constantinople, a continent-straddling city of many names and conflicting histories....\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIF \"1\" place can be so many, perhaps there's hope for me, our Main Man reasons in confession.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e R. P. Singletary\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Parlyaree Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/23\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.09d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781961206298","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"R. P. Singletary \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48483715055773,"sku":"9781961206298","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_eba67a7d-0728-408d-ab33-d365473f91f0.jpg?v=1782288808","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/speak-softly-among-icebergs-our-hours-and-other-media-melting-fast-9781961206298","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}