{"product_id":"9780316298506","title":"Ways to Disappear","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Sami Rohr Prize in Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize for First Fiction \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNPR Best Book of 2016\u003cbr\u003eBuzzfeed Best Debut of 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eBUST Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e Best Book of 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the 2016 Brooklyn Eagles Literary Prize for Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e2016 Barnes\u0026amp;Noble Discover selection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An elegant page-turner....Charges forward with the momentum of a bullet.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor fans of Robin Sloan's \u003ci\u003eMr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore \u003c\/i\u003eand Maria Semple's \u003ci\u003eWhere'd You Go, Bernadette\u003c\/i\u003e, an inventive, brilliant debut novel about the disappearance of a famous Brazilian novelist and the young translator who turns her life upside down to follow her author's trail. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eBeatriz Yagoda was once one of Brazil's most celebrated authors. At the age of sixty, she is mostly forgotten-until one summer afternoon when she enters a park in Rio de Janeiro, climbs into an almond tree, and disappears.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhen her devoted translator Emma hears the news in wintry Pittsburgh, she flies to the sticky heat of Rio. There she joins the author's son and daughter to solve the mystery of Yagoda's disappearance and satisfy the demands of the colorful characters left in her wake, including a loan shark with a debt to collect and the washed-up editor who launched Yagoda's career. What they discover is how much of her they never knew.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eExquisitely imagined and as profound as it is suspenseful, \u003ci\u003eWays to Disappear\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a thrilling story of intrigue and a radiant novel of self-reckoning.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117516505328,"sku":"9780316298506","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316298506_p0.jpg?v=1769916312","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316298506","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}