{"product_id":"called-back-9780823294046","title":"Called Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eForeword Book of the Year Award\u003cbr\u003e Independent Publishers Award (IPPY)\u003cbr\u003e Lambda Literary Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e Publishing Triangle Award Finalist\u003cbr\u003e GAMMA Award, Best Feature from The Magazine Association of the Southwest for “Getting the News,” \u003ci\u003eThe Georgia Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Summer 2009\u003cbr\u003e Notable Essay of the Year Citation in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e 2010 for “Getting the News”\u003cbr\u003e Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Guerilla Girls On Tour and by WILLA: Women in Literary Arts and Letters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn extended meditation on the nature of love and the nature of time inside illness, \u003ci\u003eCalled Back\u003c\/i\u003e is both a narrative and non-narrative experiment in prose. The book moves through the standard breast cancer treatment trajectory (diagnosis, surgery, chemotherapy, radiation), with the aim of discovering unexpected vectors of observation, meaning and desire inside each phase of the typically mandated four-part ritual. A lyrical feminist critique of living with cancer at the turn of the twenty-first century in the United States, the book looks through the lens of cancer to discover new truths about intimacy and essential solitude, eroticism, the fact of the body, and the impossibility of turning away. Offering original exegeses of the work of Marsden Hartley, Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, and Marcel Proust, \u003ci\u003eCalled Back\u003c\/i\u003e relies on these artists’ queer aesthetics to tease the author back to life. What might a person tutored as a reader of signs “see” inside breast cancer’s paces, protocols, and regimes? What does the experience occlude, and what can we afford to liberate? \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first chapter paves the way for the book’s central emphases: a meditation on the nature of “news” and the new, on noticing, on messages—including those that the body itself relies upon in the assumption of disease—and the interpretive methods we bring to them in medical crisis. Language is paramount for how we understand and act on the disease, how we imagine it, how we experience it, and how we treat it, Cappello argues. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWorking at the borders of memoir, literary nonfiction, and cultural analysis, \u003ci\u003eCalled Back \u003c\/i\u003eaims to displace tonal and affective norms— infantilizing or moralizing, redemptive, sentimental or cute—with reverie, rage, passionate intensity, intelligence, and humor.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary Cappello","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48282475102459,"sku":"9780823294046","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_9c512df5-3b4f-48f4-8526-2456b301a050.jpg?v=1778613745","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/called-back-9780823294046","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}