Sarah Manguso Bücher

The most extraordinary memoir about illness and grief since Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking.

“[Manguso] has written the memoir we didn’t realize we needed.” —The New Yorker In Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso continues to define the contours of the contemporary essay. In it, she confronts a meticulous diary that she has kept for twenty-five years. “I wanted to end each day with a record of everything that had ever happened,” she explains. But this simple statement belies a terror that she might forget something, that she might miss something important. Maintaining that diary, now eight hundred thousand words, had become, until recently, a kind of spiritual practice. Then Manguso became pregnant and had a child, and these two Copernican events generated an amnesia that put her into a different relationship with the need to document herself amid ongoing time. Ongoingness is a spare, meditative work that stands in stark contrast to the volubility of the diary—it is a haunting account of mortality and impermanence, of how we struggle to find clarity in the chaos of time that rushes around and over and through us. “Bold, elegant, and honest . . . Ongoingness reads variously as an addict’s testimony, a confession, a celebration, an elegy.” —The Paris Review “Manguso captures the central challenge of memory, of attentiveness to life . . . A spectacularly and unsummarizably rewarding read.” —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

Featuring the whimsical inquiries of children, this collection showcases the imaginative and often humorous perspectives they hold. Through the artistry of Liana Finck, a celebrated New Yorker cartoonist, the book brings to life the poignant and curious thoughts that reflect the wonder of childhood.

A combined book of Ongoingness and 300 Arguments, two daring works by Sarah Manguso, presented together in a rare reversible single edition.

A brilliant and exhilarating sequence of aphorisms from one of our greatest essayists.

Exploring the complexities of marriage, this novel delves into the ways it can transform individuals into liars, revealing the hidden truths beneath the surface. With sharp, evocative prose, it resonates with fans of contemporary authors who tackle themes of intimacy and self-deception. The narrative promises to challenge perceptions and provoke thought, making it a compelling read for those interested in the intricacies of relationships and personal identity.

Acclaimed writer Sarah Manguso makes her fiction debut with an icy, furious novel about the way in which a society can ignore and enable the abuse of young women, narrated by the daughter of just such an abusive mother.