{"product_id":"united-states-of-rejection-a-story-of-love-hate-and-hope-9780820377230","title":"United States of Rejection: A Story of Love, Hate, and Hope","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a love-hate story about personal and political relationships in the United States, told through the intimate stories of both the rejectors and the rejected: lovers, families, neighbors, and a nation and its people. Although we're taught not to care about others' opinions, rejection always hurts, and it hurts some people a lot more than others. To prove it, this book marshals contemporary neuroscience, the Founding Fathers' rejection advice, and four centuries of personal narratives, many of them hilarious, many more heartbreaking. These rejection and acceptance stories span loving and disastrous American first encounters, soldiers and dancers rejected on front lines and chorus lines, playground bullies invoked before the Senate, and generations of lovers and patriots battling or swiping right to defend their loved ones and their country. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAbraham Lincoln wrote, \"The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more evil, than of good.\" But rejection is often unjust, often deserved, and unusually complicated, depending on who's rejecting whom and why. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn laboratories, diaries, self-help manuals, auditions, lawsuits, and wars, we find models for \"getting past\" rejections, not just through personal resilience, but also through creating accountability and justice. \u003ci\u003eUnited States of Rejection\u003c\/i\u003e begins with heartbreak and ends with hope: an urgent self-improvement program for changing our relationships and the future of our messy nation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alison Kinney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.03lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.47h x 5.61w x 1.03d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820377230\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/30\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eALISON KINNEY is assistant professor of writing (nonfiction) at Eugene Lang College, The New School. She is the author of the books Hood and Avidly Reads Opera. Her writing on culture, history, science, and social justice has appeared in many publications, online or in print, including \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review Daily\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLapham's Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarper's\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGay Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives and writes in Brooklyn, New York.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Alison Kinney \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47897244762269,"sku":"9780820377230","price":34.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_3b611eef-e155-4e6d-9a96-b18d9f99fe5e.jpg?v=1778004432","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/united-states-of-rejection-a-story-of-love-hate-and-hope-9780820377230","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}