{"product_id":"9781487011994","title":"How to Restore a Timeline","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA kaleidoscopic blend of personal essays and cultural criticism that explores the profound and occasionally horrific truths of what it means to be traumatized.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen a stranger shoots his dad on a Costa Rican pier, Peter Counter hauls his blood-drenched father to safety. Returning home, Counter discovers that his sense of time and memory is shattered, and in its place is a budding new mental illness: post-traumatic stress disorder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCounter begins to see violence everywhere. From the music of Cat Stevens to Jeb Bush’s Twitter feed. Walter Benjamin to Johnny Carson. Taskmaster. Video games. ASMR videos on YouTube. The world is steeped in gore. Again and again, Counter finds himself reliving his father’s shooting as his trauma is fragmented, recast, and distorted on a compulsive mental tilt-a-whirl.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormally inventive and incisively smart, \u003cem\u003eHow to Restore a Timeline\u003c\/em\u003e revels in a fragile human condition battered by real conflict and hyper-curated media portrayals of death. Channelling John Jerimiah Sullivan and Carmen Maria Machado, these essays look us dead in the eye and ask: What kind of life can we piece together amid all the carnage?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Counter (CA)","offers":[{"title":"House of Anansi Press Inc |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-10-10","offer_id":44230014894335,"sku":"9781487011994","price":22.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_6a93bde1-8bc0-4fc1-924b-3eafac75286e.jpg?v=1706911637","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781487011994","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}