{"product_id":"2940170208883","title":"Carthage: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice, and the atrocities of war from Joyce Carol Oates, \"one of the great artistic forces of our time\" (\u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZeno Mayfield's daughter has disappeared into the night, gone missing in the wilds of the Adirondacks. But when the community of Carthage joins a father's frantic search for the girl, they discover the unlikeliest of suspectsamp;#8212;a decorated Iraq War veteran with close ties to the Mayfield family. As grisly evidence mounts against the troubled war hero, the family must wrestle with the possibility of having lost a daughter forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCarthage\u003c\/em\u003e plunges us deep into the psyche of a wounded young corporal haunted by unspeakable acts of wartime aggression, while unraveling the story of a disaffected young girl whose exile from her family may have come long before her disappearance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDark and riveting, \u003cem\u003eCarthage\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon, one that explores the human capacity for violence, love, and forgiveness, and asks if it's ever truly possible to come home again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47100647506160,"sku":"2940170208883","price":38.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170208883_p0.jpg?v=1763704996","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170208883","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}