{"product_id":"see-now-then-by-jamaica-kincaid-9781529076721","title":"See Now Then","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIf revenge is a dish best served cold, See Now Then is a baked alaska in reverse, chilling on the outside, screaming hot at the center\u003c\/em\u003e - New York Times\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA piercing examination of the manifold ways in which the passing of time operates on the human consciousness. Kincaid inhabits each of her characters - a mother, a father, and their two children, living in a small village in New England - as they move, in their own minds, between the present, the past, and the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer characters, constrained by the world, despair in their domestic situations. But their minds wander, trying to make linear sense of what is, in fact, non-linear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSee Now Then\u003c\/em\u003e is Kincaid's attempt to make clear what is unclear, and to make unclear what we assumed was clear: that is, the beginning, the middle, and the end.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244024475884,"sku":"9781529076721","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529076721-see-now-then-1.jpg?v=1787991927","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/see-now-then-by-jamaica-kincaid-9781529076721","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}