{"product_id":"2940170008711","title":"Tiny Americans: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the national best-selling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Boat Runner\u003c\/i\u003e comes a poignant, luminous novel that follows one family over decades and across the world amp;mdash; perfect for fans of the film \u003ci\u003eBoyhood\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestern New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents¿ destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking. Terrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: They listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled sky. Despite these lessons, he doesn¿t show them how to survive without him. And when these seasons of trying and failing to quit booze and be a better man are over, Terrance is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlone with their artist mother, Catrin, the Thurber children are left to grapple with the anger they feel for the one parent who deserted them and a growing resentment for the one who didn¿t. As Catrin withdraws into her own world, Jamie throws herself into painting while her brothers smash out their rage in brutal, no-holds-barred football games with neighborhood kids. Once they can leave amp;mdash; Jamie for college, Lewis for the navy, and Connor for work amp;mdash; they don¿t look back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Terrance does. Crossing the country, sobering up, and starting over has left him with razor-sharp regret. Terrance doesn¿t know that Jamie, now an academic, inhabits an ever-shrinking circle of loneliness; that Lewis, a Merchant Marine, fears life on dry land; that Connor struggles to connect with the son he sees teetering on an all-too-familiar edge. He only knows he has one last try to build a bridge, through the years, to his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposed of a series of touchstone moments, \u003ci\u003eTiny Americans\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling and bittersweet rendering of a family that, much like the tides, continues to come together and drift apart.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100632924400,"sku":"2940170008711","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170008711_p0.jpg?v=1763698948","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170008711","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}