{"product_id":"9781567928143","title":"The Charterhouse of Padma","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo South Asian professors, both named P, unearth shocking secrets about the men they love and question the lives they chose.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eP is writing obsessively about her favorite color: chartreuse. She's a translator and professor, married to Mac, a professional feminist too slick for his own good. As the COVID lockdown commences, she discovers a secret about him, one that upends her understanding of their relationship and their marriage. In the gulf of their widening estrangement, P imagines a double, someone very like herself but less lonely, more independent, more angry, more maternal, more fun...\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNow we meet another \"P\" a novelist, also writing about chartreuse. She's married to a successful poet and translator called Mat. It's her second marriage--the first fell apart when she discovered a secret about her then-husband. This P is abraded, exhausted, and enraged: by racial microaggressions, by structural obstacles, by the ways her husband's reaction to her own overdue career success is challenging their marriage. Granted stillness by the pandemic, though, this P rediscovers joy and hope in her relationship.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEventually, each woman is led by her essay to the Chartreuse Mountains, the region made famous by the monks and their secret elixir.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Charterhouse of Padma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is full of delicious secrets, revelations, and sharply observed truths about what is to be brown, a woman, a wife, a mother, and an artist. Exhilarating, electrifying, charged with incisive intellect and humor, this is a novel for anyone who ever wondered how, and if, they ever chose the thing they love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Padma Viswanathan","offers":[{"title":"David R. Godine Publisher | Hardcover | 2024-10-08","offer_id":45703428800767,"sku":"9781567928143","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/71Gv2-2foZL._SL1500.jpg?v=1718221013","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781567928143","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}