{"product_id":"names-are-not-important-hardcover","title":"Names Are Not Important - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJen Lee\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShe is only trying to live her life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo grow up. To fall in love. To leave home and make another. She only wants to be wanted. To be left alone. To hold on. To let go. To become someone she can recognize as her own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBut a life is crowded.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome know her before she knows herself. Some leave words that harden into belief. Some make being seen feel dangerous. There are bedrooms and hospital rooms, fields and apartments, first loves and broken hearts, people who disappear and people who return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is grief. Desire. Fear. Tenderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the peculiar cruelty of discovering that something can be over without being gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFiercely introspective, \u003cem\u003eNames Are Not Important\u003c\/em\u003e moves between past and present as memory refuses to stay where it belongs. Told without a single named character, the novel follows one woman from childhood into adulthood through the people, places, and moments that continue to inhabit her life long after they have passed through it. And slowly, the distance between what has happened to her and who she is becomes harder to find.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe closer everything draws around her, the more the one thing she has spent a lifetime trying to hold onto slips out of reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHaunting and deeply human, names are not important asks a deceptively simple question: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ewhere does identity begin and end?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers who love: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- emotionally immersive literary fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- stories about missed chances and unspoken love\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- nonlinear, introspective storytelling\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- books that linger long after the final page\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNot everything leaves as cleanly as you think.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 448\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.13 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68372288471261,"sku":"9798985024630","price":34.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/GCAC3YeTKi9798985024630.webp?v=1793494297","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/names-are-not-important-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}