{"product_id":"scaffolding-paperback","title":"Scaffolding - 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\u003eLauren Elkin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Best Book of the Year: \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Week\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New Statesman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Must-Read: \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e, BBC, \u003ci\u003e Our Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e i news\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Sexy, intelligent . . . biting, too.\" --Keziah Weir, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe debut novel by the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eFlâneuse \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eArt Monsters\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Lauren Elkin's \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eScaffolding \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eis a story of Paris, desire, love, psychoanalysis, and the turbulent affairs of two couples across time.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eParis, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, finds herself unable to return to work. Instead, she obsesses over a kitchen renovation and befriends a new neighbor--a younger woman called Clémentine who has just moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eParis, 1972. The same apartment in Belleville. Florence and Henry are renovating their kitchen. She is finishing her degree in psychology, dropping into feminist activities, and devotedly attending the groundbreaking, infamous seminars held by the renowned analyst Jacques Lacan. She is hoping to conceive their first child, though Henry isn't sure he's ready for fatherhood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo couples, fifty years apart, face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy. They inhabit this same small space in separate but similar times--times charged with political upheaval and intellectual controversy. A novel in the key of Éric Rohmer, Lauren Elkin's \u003ci\u003eScaffolding \u003c\/i\u003eis about the way our homes collect and hold our memories and our stories, about the bonds we create and the difficulty of ever fully severing them, about the ways all the people we've loved live on in us.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Elkin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eArt Monsters \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eFlâneuse\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003enotable book and a finalist for the PEN\/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Le Monde\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e, among other publications. A native New Yorker, Elkin lived in Paris for twenty years and now resides in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 400\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45447755661356,"sku":"9781250397744","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/XgZh9LhCQ9781250397744.webp?v=1775979991","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/scaffolding-paperback","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}