{"product_id":"my-only-wife-paperback","title":"My Only Wife - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJac Jemc\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTen years ago the narrator unlocked the door of a wrecked apartment, empty of any trace of his wife. As stunning as her disappearance is his response. He freezes on the facts of her, haunting his recollections. This is the story of a man unable to free himself enough from the idea of a woman to try to find her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMy Only Wife is a sneaky book. It guiles the reader with clean prose and apparent simplicity into believing that it's a novel about the narrator's only wife. It may be about many things - about absence, emptiness, and loss - but it really isn't about the narrator's only wife. It's more like an empty glass from the cupboard, an abstraction, a form, and it invites us to fill it with particulars from our own experience. --David Allan Barker, nouspique.com\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJac Jemc has written a novel so wonderful that if it were a dish served at a social event, I would ask the hostess for the recipe. -\u003ci\u003eNewPages.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jac Lemc's novel \u003ci\u003eMy Only Wife\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, haunting, and heartbreaking debut that explores themes of loss and love.\" -\u003ci\u003eLarge Hearted Boy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The author sculpts her characters to reveal their bare form, which just happens to include their innermost flaws. She impressively closes the gap between objects and affects, emotion and experience, exactly what any attempt at accurately portraying our world requires.\" -\u003ci\u003eSmalldoggies Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A book whose sentences have become textures in my memory that I will keep with me.\" -Jess Stoner\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jemc has done something quite extraordinary with her first novel. She has created a world that is at once familiar and at once strange. Just as the husband can never quite get close enough to his wife, the reader can never quite grasp where Jemc is taking her characters on their journey.\" --\u003ci\u003eUsed Furniture Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eMy Only Wife\u003c\/i\u003e, Jac Jemc takes the noir and beauty and eternity of what we think is love and creates an entirely new narrative.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Nervous Breakdown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I don't necessarily like the people in this book, but I understand these people and I love this book. And absolute pleasure to read, and I will cherish it on my bookshelf. I don't often reread novels, but this is definitely one I'll return to again and again.\" -Samuel Snoek-Brown\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Jac Jemc paints a devastating picture of what happens to the one who gets left behind in her debut novel \u003ci\u003eMy Only Wife\u003c\/i\u003e.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Next Best Book Blog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eEnd of the year Top Ten list at \u003ci\u003eVolume I Brooklyn.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinalist for the PEN\/Robert W. Bingham Award for debut fiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJac Jemc\u003c\/b\u003e's work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eDenver Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCaketrain\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHandsome\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSleepingfish\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She is the author of a chapbook of stories, \u003ci\u003eThese Strangers She'd Invited In\u003c\/i\u003e (Greying Ghost Press) and is the poetry editor for decomP magazinE.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJac Jemc: Her work has appeared in The Denver Quarterly, Caketrain, Handsome and Sleepingfish, among others. She is the author of a chapbook of stories, These Strangers She'd Invited In (Greying Ghost Press) and the poetry editor for decomP Magazine. Jac blogs her rejections at jacjemc.wordpress.com. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 168\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 08, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Literary Award (2013)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52539877622067,"sku":"9781936873685","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/RjRsRk1LYVV4em1oR0tPNTIzc3c2UT09.webp?v=1760864266","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/my-only-wife-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}