{"product_id":"2940152870749","title":"Beauty Rising","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"My heart sank. I dumped my father's ashes in the heart of communist Vietnam - over a thousand miles from the death of his comrades - over a thousand miles from the smile of that girl. How could I have been so stupid?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly the bumbling, overweight, thirtyish, stay-at-home Martin Kinney could have mistakenly flubbed his dying father's request with such gusto. This thousand mile mistake awakens the ghosts of long-held family secrets and puts Martin on a fateful course with an unlikely romantic interest - a young, beautiful, yet troubled Vietnamese woman named My Phuong.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith its cross-cultural setting and unlikely romance, the 61,000 word novel Beauty Rising creates a powerful, unique voice in today's literature. In a swift-moving, dialogue-driven prose which is funny, honest, tragic and unpredictable, Beauty Rising explores the depths of culture, family, and love as the Vietnam War, a generation removed, continues to hang on the periphery of society, cursing families and causing destruction.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark W Sasse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47103519359216,"sku":"2940152870749","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940152870749_p0.jpg?v=1764024757","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940152870749","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}