{"product_id":"9781988298818","title":"Big Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA book about memory, loss, and a love of books from one of Canada's finest essayists\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEver since childhood, Susan Olding has been a big reader, never without a book on the go. Not surprising, then, that she turns to the library to read her own life. From the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship with her new partner's daughter, from discovering Toronto as a young undergrad to, years later, watching her mother slowly go blind: through every experience, Olding crafts exquisite, searingly honest essays about what it means to be human, to be a woman--and to be a reader.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBig Reader\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, achingly beautiful collection about the slipperiness of memory and identity, the enduring legacy of loss, and the nuanced disappointments and joys of a reading life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susan Olding (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Freehand Books |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2021-05-01","offer_id":44151052468479,"sku":"9781988298818","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/products\/BNCImageAPI_742f0ecf-484e-4127-81d5-66a4ebbf93f8.jpg?v=1614805377","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781988298818","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}