{"product_id":"scaffolding-a-novel-0374615292","title":"Scaffolding: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Best Book of the Year: Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, The Week, The New Statesman\nA Must-Read: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, Marie Claire, Frieze, Literary Hub, The Millions, BBC, Our Culture, i news\n\n“Sexy, intelligent . . . biting, too.” ―Keziah Weir, Vanity Fair\n\nThe debut novel by the acclaimed author of Flâneuse and Art Monsters, Lauren Elkin’s Scaffolding is a story of Paris, desire, love, psychoanalysis, and the turbulent affairs of two couples across time.\n\nParis, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work. Instead, she obsesses over a kitchen renovation and befriends a new neighbor―a younger woman called Clémentine who has just moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective.\n\nParis, 1972. The same apartment in Belleville. Florence and Henry are renovating their kitchen. She is finishing her degree in psychology, dropping into feminist activities, and devotedly attending the groundbreaking, infamous seminars held by the renowned analyst Jacques Lacan. She is hoping to conceive their first child, though Henry isn’t sure he’s ready for fatherhood.\n\nTwo couples, fifty years apart, face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy. They inhabit this same small space in separate but similar times―times charged with political upheaval and intellectual controversy. A novel in the key of Éric Rohmer, Lauren Elkin’s\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42913291927636,"sku":"TBD-FBM-9780374615291","price":14.81,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/1479\/9188\/files\/815qkYZV7XL._SY522.jpg?v=1770485879","url":"https:\/\/wesavebooks.com\/products\/scaffolding-a-novel-0374615292","provider":"We Save Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}