{"product_id":"dry-your-tears-to-perfect-your-aim-paperback","title":"Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJacob Wren\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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\u003ebest 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\u003e best book of 2016); and\u003ci\u003e Authenticity is a Feeling.\u003c\/i\u003e He is artistic co-director of the Montreal-based interdisciplinary group PME-ART. Wren lives in Montreal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 220\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1 x 8 x 5.25 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 17, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42725888131135,"sku":"9781771669047","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/7f9fbaba9dcdbdbc78d1cc4a17ca91c5.webp?v=1765108351","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/dry-your-tears-to-perfect-your-aim-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}