{"product_id":"2940170438112","title":"How Strange a Season: Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003eAward-winning short story writer Megan Mayhew Bergman's debut novel-a beautiful and engrossing tale of a southern family, set outside of Charleston in the 1920s and 1930s, with an unforgettable young heroine.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWin Spangler and Helena Glass met on the dunes at a beach resort in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1919. Helena, a skilled shooter and former beauty queen, was born and raised on a moss-draped former rice plantation, and her family is devoted to preserving their crumbling heritage. Win is a medical school dropout with a sizeable inheritance, eager to make his mark on southern culture. When Helena seduces Win, their lives become inextricably bound.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Their daughter Sally Anne is born at Glass Manor and her father nicknames her Skip, because he hopes any misfortune will pass her by. But her mother is unstable and her father is unsatisfied, and Skip grows up lonely and isolated. She is drawn to the families down the road on Nightingale Lane, where the field workers and servants live, and develops a unique friendship with a boy named Ase. When Skip is thirteen years old her father invites a disquieting doctor to set up a private laboratory on the property, and his pioneering surgical experiments lead to disastrous consequences, forcing Skip to question everything she knows about family, love, and legacy.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Author Megan Mayhew Bergman has been hailed \"a top-notch emerging writer\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe) \u003c\/i\u003eand a writer of \"intense, richly imagined tales\" (Maureen Corrigan, NPR), and brings her formidable storytelling talents to bear in \u003ci\u003eNightingale Lane, \u003c\/i\u003ewith its rich cast of characters and lush, evocative prose. Atmospheric and steeped in southern lore, \u003ci\u003eNightingale Lane\u003c\/i\u003e explores the power of wronged women, the cost of inheritance, and the reconciliation of past and present.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117293617392,"sku":"2940170438112","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170438112_p0.jpg?v=1763802026","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170438112","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}