{"product_id":"2940169168754","title":"Oliver Loving: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Stefan Merrill Block, celebrated literary talent and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Forgetting\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a brilliant, propulsive audiobook about family, the traumas and secrets that test our deepest bonds, and the stories that hold us together.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne warm, West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss County Day School's annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic Junior named Rebekkah Sterling. But as the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school's back door. The dire choices this man makes that eveningamp;mdash;and the unspoken story he carriesamp;mdash;will tear the town of Bliss, Texas apart. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNearly ten years later, Oliver Loving still lies wordless and paralyzed at Crockett State Assisted Care Facility, the fate of his mind unclear. Orbiting the stillpoint of Oliver's hospital bed is a family transformed: Oliver's mother, Eve, who keeps desperate vigil; Oliver's brother, Charlie, who has fled for New York City only to discover he cannot escape the gravity of his shattered family; Oliver's father, Jed, who tries to erase his memories with bourbon. And then there is Rebekkah Sterling, Oliver's teenage love, who left Texas long ago and still refuses to speak about her own part in that tragic night. When a new medical test promises a key to unlock Oliver's trapped mind, the town's unanswered questions resurface with new urgency, as Oliver's doctors and his family fight for a way for Oliver to finally communicateamp;mdash;and so also to tell the truth of what really happened that fateful night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA moving meditation on the transformative power of grief and love, a slyly affectionate look at the idiosyncrasies of family, and an emotionally charged pause resister, \u003ci\u003eOliver Loving\u003c\/i\u003e is an extraordinarily original audiobook that ventures into the unknowable and returns with the most fundamental truths.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47114019045616,"sku":"2940169168754","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169168754_p0.jpg?v=1763674419","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169168754","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}