{"product_id":"2940169177428","title":"Abide with Me: A Novel (Abridged)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her luminous and long-awaited novel, bestselling author Elizabeth Strout welcomes  readers back to the archetypal, lovely landscape of northern New England, where the  events of her first novel, \u003ci\u003eAmy and Isabelle,\u003c\/i\u003e unfolded. In the late 1950s, in the  small town of West Annett, Maine, a minister struggles to regain his calling, his  family, and his happiness in the wake of profound loss. At the same time, the community  he has served so charismatically must come to terms with its own strengths and failings-faith and hypocrisy, loyalty and abandonment-when a dark secret is revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTyler  Caskey has come to love West Annett, \"just up the road\" from where he was born. The  short, brilliant summers and the sharp, piercing winters fill him with awe-as does  his congregation, full of good people who seek his guidance and listen earnestly  as he preaches. But after suffering a terrible loss, Tyler finds it hard to return  to himself as he once was. He hasn't had The Feeling-that God is all around him,  in the beauty of the world-for quite some time. He struggles to find the right words  in his sermons and in his conversations with those facing crises of their own, and  to bring his five-year-old daughter, Katherine, out of the silence she has observed  in the wake of the family's tragedy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA congregation that had once been patient  and kind during Tyler's grief now questions his leadership and propriety. In the  kitchens, classrooms, offices, and stores of the village, anger and gossip have started  to swirl. And in Tyler's darkest hour, a startling discovery will test his congregation' s humanity-and his own will to endure the kinds of trials that sooner or later test  us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn prose incandescent and artful, Elizabeth Strout draws readers into  the details of ordinary life in a way that makes it extraordinary. All is considered-life, love, God, and community-within these pages, and all is made new by this writer's boundless compassion and graceful prose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104328958192,"sku":"2940169177428","price":14.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169177428_p0.jpg?v=1763674654","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169177428","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}