{"product_id":"2940169613254","title":"Crooked Little Heart: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWith the same brilliant combination of humor and warmth that marked \u003ci\u003eOperating Instructions\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBird by Bird\u003c\/i\u003eamp;mdash;her two best-selling works of nonfictionamp;mdash;Anne Lamott now gives us an exuberant, richly absorbing portrait of a family for whom the joys and sorrows of everyday life are magnified under the glare of the unexpected.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Fergusons make their home in a small California town where life is supposed to resemble paradise, but for 13-year-old Rosie (last seen in Lamott's beloved novel Rosie), reality is a bit harsher. Her mother, a recovering alcoholic, is still beset by grief over the early death of her first husband. Rosie's stepfather is a struggling writer plagued by doubts and hilarious paranoia. And Rosie, aching in the bloom of young womanhood and obsessed with tournament tennis, finds that her athletic gifts, initially a source of triumph, now place her in peril, as a shadowy man who stalks her from the bleachers seems to be developing an obsession of his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthored with enormous emotional honesty, inhabited by superbly realized characters, riotously funny, and wonderfully suspenseful, \u003ci\u003eCrooked Little Heart\u003c\/i\u003e is Anne Lamott writing at the height of her considerable powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150296400112,"sku":"2940169613254","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169613254_p0.jpg?v=1763689215","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169613254","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}