{"product_id":"dry-your-tears-to-perfect-your-aim-paperback","title":"Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacob Wren\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Quebec Writers Federation Fiction Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 \u003ci\u003eBig Other \u003c\/i\u003eBook Award for Fiction \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2024 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat are the best ways to support political struggles that aren't your own? What are the fundamental principles of a utopia during war? Can we transcend the societal values we inherit? \u003ci\u003eDry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim \u003c\/i\u003eis a remarkably original, literary page-turner that explores such pressing questions of our time.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA depressed writer visits a war zone. He knows it's a bad idea, but his curiosity and obsession that his tax dollars help to pay for foreign wars draw him there. Amid the fighting, he stumbles into a small strip of land that's being reimagined as a grassroots, feminist, egalitarian utopia. As he learns about the principles of the collective, he moves between a fragile sense of self and the ethical considerations of writing about what he experiences but cannot truly fathom. Meanwhile, women in his life--from this reimagined society and elsewhere--underscore truths hidden in plain sight. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these pages, real-world politics mingle with profoundly inventive fabulations. This is an anti-war novel unlike any other, an intricate study of our complicity in violent global systems and a celebration of the hope that underpins the resistance against them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJACOB WREN\u003c\/b\u003e makes literature, performances, and exhibitions. His books include \u003ci\u003eRevenge Fantasies of the Politically Dispossessed\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003ePolyamorous Love Song\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the Fence Modern Prize in Prose and a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2014); \u003ci\u003eRich and Poor\u003c\/i\u003e (finalist for the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail \u003c\/i\u003eBest Book of 2016); \u003ci\u003eAuthenticity is a Feeling\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eDry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim\u003c\/i\u003e. He is artistic co-director of the Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART. Wren lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47459427319986,"sku":"9781771669047","price":20.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ILiFLMLH-r9781771669047.webp?v=1782994706","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/dry-your-tears-to-perfect-your-aim-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}