{"product_id":"9780062270016","title":"The Ecco Summer 2013 Fiction Sampler: Excerpts from Ecco and Amistad's Upcoming Books","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Ecco\/Amistad Summer 2013 Fiction Sampler features excerpts from our upcoming novels and story collections:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003e  \u003cem\u003eSouthern Cross the Dog\u003c\/em\u003e by Bill Cheng\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e  \u003cem\u003ePeripatetic Coffin\u003c\/em\u003e by Ethan Rutherford\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e  \u003cem\u003eTogether Tea\u003c\/em\u003e by Marjan Kamali\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e  \u003cem\u003eThe Son\u003c\/em\u003e by Philipp Meyer\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e  \u003cem\u003eThe Impossible Lives of Greta Wells\u003c\/em\u003e by Andrew Sean Greer\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e  \u003cem\u003eTampa\u003c\/em\u003e by Alissa Nutting\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003e  \u003cem\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/em\u003e by Ivy Pochoda\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Son\u003c\/em\u003e—an epic, multigenerational saga of power, blood, and land—Philipp Meyer maps the legacy of violence in the American west and presents an intimate portrait of one family across two centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Impossible Lives of Greta Wells\u003c\/em\u003e (heralded as \"wonderful\" by John Irving) beautifully wrestles with the impossibility of \"what could be\" as a woman with nowhere left to turn undergoes radical electroshock therapy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTogether Tea\u003c\/em\u003e, we meet a loving mother who is determined to make her daughter's life work out: one Excel spreadsheet at a time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003cem\u003eThe Peripatetic Coffin\u003c\/em\u003e (which Alice Sebold called \"100% Grade-A storytelling\") examine the ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the \"beautifully written and epic\" (Nathan Englander) \u003cem\u003eSouthern Cross the Dog\u003c\/em\u003e, three childhood friends cope with the devastating aftermath of the Great Flood of 1927 in Mississippi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/em\u003e is \"urban opera writ large\" (Dennis Lehane); the novel explores the reactions of a blue-collar community after a teenaged girl mysteriously disappears from the banks of their rough-hewn waterfront.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd in \u003cem\u003eTampa\u003c\/em\u003e, we inhabit the mind of Celeste—a smoldering 26-year-old middle school teacher who unrepentantly recounts her elaborate and sociopathically determined seduction of her 14-year-old student.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47078029394160,"sku":"9780062270016","price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780062270016_p0.jpg?v=1763628187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780062270016","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}