{"product_id":"the-geography-of-becoming-paperback","title":"The Geography of Becoming - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWayne Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou can survive a life and still discover you were never meant to remain inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn Western Alaska, far from the places that first taught him who he was supposed to be, a man begins taking inventory of the selves he has carried: the son shaped by absence, the traveler searching for distance, the survivor who mistook vigilance for strength, and the man who learned to build an identity around what hurt him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross Alaska, Florida, Colombia, memory, solitude, and the disciplined rituals of an ordinary life, \u003cem\u003eThe Geography of Becoming\u003c\/em\u003e follows the quiet unraveling of an old self-and the harder work of choosing what comes next.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten as literary autofiction rooted in lived experience, Wayne Jackson's deeply reflective work explores masculinity, grief, belonging, identity, reinvention, family, solitude, and the strange mercy of outgrowing the person who once kept you alive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBecause becoming is not escape.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is not erasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is the moment you stop asking the past for permission to have a future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers drawn to lyrical, emotionally intimate writing about transformation and the interior life, \u003cem\u003eThe Geography of Becoming\u003c\/em\u003e is a meditation on the places that shape us, the identities we inherit, and the difficult freedom of deciding who we will be next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.28 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923951780147,"sku":"9798952456136","price":24.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/UxOjENzJMD9798952456136.webp?v=1793828892","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/the-geography-of-becoming-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}