{"product_id":"a-night-in-brooklyn","title":"A Night in Brooklyn","description":"D. Nurkse's deeply satisfying new collection is a haunted love letter to the far corners of his hometown, Brooklyn, New York, and a meditation on the selves that were left behind in those indelible places. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Here Nurkse brings alive the particular details that shape a life, in this case unique to the world of Brooklyn--a job at the Arnold Grill, \"topping off drafts with a paddle\" for the truckers who came in; the deaf white alley cat that mysteriously survived the winter on a stoop in Bensonhurst; the narrow bed where young love took place; the wild gardens behind the tenements. His exploration of this almost mythic city past is combined with a sense of the future speeding toward us--the ongoing riddle of time and being in a larger universe. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e . . . And she who was driving said, \u003cbr\u003e We know the coming disaster intimately but the present is unknowable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Which disaster, I wondered, sexual or geological? But I was shy: \u003cbr\u003e her beauty was like a language she didn't speak and had never heard. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e From \"The Present\"","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52317697114328,"sku":"9780375712210","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0833\/0369\/4552\/files\/imageloader_4038c9aa-f9c6-49ac-9874-2962c79d670d.jpg?v=1787949748","url":"https:\/\/bigredbooks.shop\/products\/a-night-in-brooklyn","provider":"Big Red Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}