{"product_id":"in-the-darkroom","title":"In the Darkroom","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist \u003cbr\u003e\nand bestselling author of \"Backlash,\" comes \"In the Darkroom,\" an \u003cbr\u003e\nastonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father and the larger \u003cbr\u003e\nriddle of identity consuming our age. In the summer of 2004 I set\u003cbr\u003e\n out to investigate someone I scarcely knew, my father. The project \u003cbr\u003e\nbegan with a grievance, the grievance of a daughter whose parent had \u003cbr\u003e\nabsconded from her life. I was in pursuit of a scofflaw, an artful \u003cbr\u003e\ndodger who had skipped out on so many things obligation, affection, \u003cbr\u003e\nculpability, contrition. I was preparing an indictment, amassing \u003cbr\u003e\ndiscovery for a trial. But somewhere along the line, the prosecutor \u003cbr\u003e\nbecame a witness.  So begins Susan Faludi s extraordinary inquiry\u003cbr\u003e\n into the meaning of identity in the modern world and in her own haunted\u003cbr\u003e\n family saga. When the feminist writer learned that her 76-year-old \u003cbr\u003e\nfather long estranged and living in Hungary had undergone sex \u003cbr\u003e\nreassignment surgery, that investigation would turn personal and urgent.\u003cbr\u003e\n How was this new parent who identified as a complete woman now \u003cbr\u003e\nconnected to the silent, explosive, and ultimately violent father she \u003cbr\u003e\nhad known, the photographer who d built his career on the alteration of \u003cbr\u003e\nimages? Faludi chases that mystery into the recesses of her \u003cbr\u003e\nsuburban childhood and her father s many previous incarnations: American\u003cbr\u003e\n dad, Alpine mountaineer, swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon \u003cbr\u003e\noutback, Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest. When the author travels \u003cbr\u003e\nto Hungary to reunite with her father, she drops into a labyrinth of \u003cbr\u003e\ndark histories and dangerous politics in a country hell-bent on \u003cbr\u003e\nrepressing its past and constructing a fanciful and virulent nationhood.\u003cbr\u003e\n The search for identity that has transfixed our century was proving as \u003cbr\u003e\ntreacherous for nations as for individuals.  Faludi s struggle to\u003cbr\u003e\n come to grips with her father s metamorphosis self takes her across \u003cbr\u003e\nborders historical, political, religious, sexual--to bring her face to \u003cbr\u003e\nface with the question of the age: Is identity something you choose, or \u003cbr\u003e\nis it the very thing you can t escape?\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Faludi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44234242293820,"sku":"9780805089080","price":2547.5,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/7706\/7836\/files\/in-the-darkroom-9780805089080.jpg?v=1776785095","url":"https:\/\/libertybooksstore.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-darkroom","provider":"LibertyBooksStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}