{"product_id":"thank-you-for-staying-with-me-essays-american-lives","title":"Thank You for Staying with Me: Essays (American Lives)","description":"Gold Medal for the 2025 IPPY Award\nWinner of the 2025 International Book Award in Best New Nonfiction\nFinalist for the 2025 International Book Award in Nonfiction: Creative\n\nUrgent, meditative, and searching, Thank You for Staying with Me is a collection of essays that navigates the complexities of home, the vulnerability of being a woman, mother-daughter relationships, and young motherhood in the conservative and religious landscape of the Ozarks. Using cosmology as a foil to discuss human issues, Bailey Gaylin Moore describes praying to the sky during moments of despondency, observing a solar eclipse while reflecting on what it means to be in the penumbra of society, and using galaxy identification to understand herself. During a collision of women’s rights, gun policy, and racial tension, Thank You for Staying with Me is a frank and intimate rumination on how national policy and social attitudes affect both the individual and the public sphere, especially in such a conservative part of the United States.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1496241932\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.1496241932.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Moore, Bailey Gaylin\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book has little sign of wear or use  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43256515690557,"sku":"BVV.1496241932.VG","price":10.66,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/1496241932-0.jpg?v=1780783049","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/thank-you-for-staying-with-me-essays-american-lives","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}