{"product_id":"her-here-paperback","title":"Her Here - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmanda Dennis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn atmospheric debut novel about one lost young woman's search for another\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Spellbinding. . . . Wholly engrossing.\" --\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElena, struggling with memory loss due to a trauma that has unmoored her sense of self, deserts graduate school and a long-term relationship to accept a bizarre proposition from an estranged family friend in Paris: she will search for a young woman, Ella, who went missing six years earlier in Thailand, by rewriting her journals. As she delves deeper into Ella's story, Elena begins to lose sight of her own identity and drift dangerously toward self-annihilation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHer Here\u003c\/i\u003e is an existential detective story with a shocking denouement that plumbs the creative and destructive powers of narrative itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn Iowa Writers' Workshop graduate and Cambridge Gates Scholar, \u003cb\u003eAmanda Dennis\u003c\/b\u003e teaches at the American University of Paris. \u003ci\u003eHer Here\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn in Philadelphia, \u003cb\u003eAmanda Dennis\u003c\/b\u003e studied modern languages at Princeton and Cambridge Universities before earning her PhD from the University of California, Berkeley and her MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was awarded a Whited Fellowship in creative writing. An avid traveler, she has lived in six countries, including Thailand, where she spent a year as a Princeton in Asia fellow. She has written about literature for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, and teaches at the American University of Paris. \u003ci\u003eHer Here\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 09, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42163761938567,"sku":"9781942658764","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/89eb8372de5168e5522077c982dbad64.webp?v=1733299832","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/her-here-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}