Deep Breath (Hardcover)
Language: English
Published by Catapult, New York, NY, 2025
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Hardcover. A visceral and stirring novel exploring free will, memory, faith, and constructions of reality and the self, following a woman faced with the question of whether her marriage is abusive, and the life-altering decision of ending itWhen we meet Vera, her body and mind are on a precipice. Shes just left her marital home to live with her father after her husbands violent outbursts reach a breaking point. Shes experiencing sudden losses of consciousness, spells of insomnia and difficulty eating. Over the course of the year that follows, she reignites a high school romance, looks to her divorced parents for guidance, attempts couples therapy, struggles to mother two young daughters, develops a brief cocaine dependency, and tries to rekindle her artistic practiceall while questioning, in Halaszs immediate, intimate prose, the infinite number of choices that led her to this difficult moment. Towards the end of the novel, we follow Vera into a surreal funhouse mirror of a courtroom scene, equally comical and horrifying, where she must confront the many conflicting narratives of her marriage and separation and decide which one rings true. With the emotional precision and formal elegance reminiscent of Natalia Ginzburg and Elena Ferrante, Halasz offers a meditation on agency, subjectivity, motherhood, and the artistic vocation with an ultimately optimistic conclusion: life consists of forward movement, in which the biggest challengeand privilegeis choice."Halaszs terse and unsparing syntax mirrors her protagonists disorientation, splicing together different conversations and memories in the span of a paragraph, sometimes even a single sentence . . . Its a testament to both Halaszs and Herberts narrative talents that even when Veras mind tips over a precipice, the reader is still able to parse her spiraling consciousness . . . Remarkable." Jane Hu, The New York Times Book Review Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Deep Breath (Hardcover)
- Author
- Rita Halasz
- Publisher
- Catapult, New York, NY
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1646222687
- ISBN 13
- 9781646222681
When we meet Vera, her body and mind are on a precipice. She’s just left her marital home to live with her father after her husband’s violent outbursts reach a breaking point. She’s experiencing sudden losses of consciousness, spells of insomnia and difficulty eating. Over the course of the year that follows, she reignites a high school romance, looks to her divorced parents for guidance, attempts couples therapy, struggles to mother two young daughters, develops a brief cocaine dependency, and tries to rekindle her artistic practice—all while questioning, in Halász’s immediate, intimate prose, the infinite number of choices that led her to this difficult moment.
Towards the end of the novel, we follow Vera into a surreal funhouse mirror of a courtroom scene, equally comical and horrifying, where she must confront the many conflicting narratives of her marriage and separation and decide which one rings true.
With the emotional precision and formal elegance reminiscent of Natalia Ginzburg and Elena Ferrante, Halász offers a meditation on agency, subjectivity, motherhood, and the artistic vocation with an ultimately optimistic conclusion: life consists of forward movement, in which the biggest challenge—and privilege—is choice.
"Halász’s terse and unsparing syntax mirrors her protagonist’s disorientation, splicing together different conversations and memories in the span of a paragraph, sometimes even a single sentence . . . It’s a testament to both Halász’s and Herbert’s narrative talents that even when Vera’s mind tips over a precipice, the reader is still able to parse her spiraling consciousness . . . Remarkable." —Jane Hu, The New York Times Book Review
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About the Author
KRIS HERBERT, who also uses Kristen Herbert professionally, is a fiction writer and translator from the Chicagoland area. After living several years in Budapest, she completed an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of California-Riverside. She is a 2024-25 Fulbright grantee doing research in Hungarian crime literature at the University of Szeged. Her own work of crime literature is a long-coming work-in-progress.
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