{"product_id":"it-lasts-forever-and-then-its-over","title":"It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over","description":"\u003cp\u003eCowinner of the 2022 Novel Prize, this incredible lifeafterdeath novel asks us to consider how much of our memory, of our bodies, of the world as we know it  how much of what we love can we lose before we are lost? And then what happens?This third perspective on myself is disconcerting.The heroine of the spare and haunting It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over is voraciously alive in the afterlife. Adrift yet keenly aware, she notes every bizarre detail of her new reality. And even if she has forgotten her name and much of what connects her to her humanity, she remembers with an implacable and nearly unbearable longing the place where she knew herself and was knownwhere she loved and was loved. Traveling across the landscapes of time and of space, heading always west, and carrying a dead but laconically opinionated crow in her chest, our undead narrator encounters and loses parts of her body and her self in one terrifying, hilarious, and heartbreaking situation after another.A bracing writer of great nerve and verve, Anne de Marcken bends reality (and the readers mind) with throwaway assurance. It Lasts Forever and Then Its Over plumbs mortality and how it changes everything, except possibly love. Delivering a nearBeckettian whopping to the readers imagination, this is one of the sharpest and funniest novels of recent years, a tale for our dispossessed times.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Directions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45900557287622,"sku":"DADAX0811237850","price":18.52,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0695\/9389\/1014\/files\/61Y6TFVAW7L.jpg?v=1780315003","url":"https:\/\/ergodemedia.com\/products\/it-lasts-forever-and-then-its-over","provider":"Ergodemedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}