{"product_id":"2940169234664","title":"Northwest Corner: A Novel","description":"The \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e called \u003ci\u003eReservation Road\u003c\/i\u003e \"a triumph,\" and the novel was universally acclaimed. Now, in a brilliant literary performance by one of our most compelling and compassionate writers, John Burnham Schwartz reintroduces us to \u003ci\u003eReservation Road\u003c\/i\u003e's unforgettable characters in a superb new work of fiction that stands magnificently on its own. \u003ci\u003eNorthwest Corner\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting story about the complex, fierce, ultimately inspiring resilience of families in the face of life's most difficult and unexpected challenges.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwelve years after a tragic accident and a cover-up that led to prison time, Dwight Arno, now fifty, is a man who has started over without exactly moving on. Living alone in California, haunted yet keeping his head down, Dwight manages a sporting goods store and dates a woman to whom he hasn't revealed the truth about his past. Then an unexpected arrival throws his carefully neutralized life into turmoil and exposes all that he's hidden.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSam, Dwight's estranged college-age son, has shown up without warning, fleeing a devastating incident in his own life. In its way, Sam's sense of guilt is as crushing as his father's. As the two men are forced to confront their similar natures and their half-buried hopes for connection, they must also search for redemption and love. In turn, they dramatically transform the lives of the women around them: the ex-wives, mothers, and lovers they have turned to in their desperate attempts to somehow rewrite, outrun, or eradicate the past.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTold in the resonant voices of everyday people gripped in the emotional riptide of lived life, \u003ci\u003eNorthwest Corner \u003c\/i\u003eis at once tough and heart-lifting, an urgent, powerful story about family bonds that can never be broken and the wayward roads that lead us back to those we love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47097814647024,"sku":"2940169234664","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169234664_p0.jpg?v=1763676182","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169234664","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}