{"product_id":"9780316576376","title":"The Most","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom “one of our most thrilling and singular innovators on the page” (Laura Van Den Berg), a tightly wound, consuming tale for readers of Claire Keegan and Ian McEwan, about a 1950s American housewife who decides to get into the pool in her family’s apartment complex one morning and won’t come out.\u003c\/b\u003e   It is an unseasonably warm Sunday in November 1957. Katheen, a college tennis champion turned Delaware housewife, decides not to join her flagrantly handsome life insurance salesman husband, Virgil, or their two young boys, at church. Instead, she takes a dip in the kidney-shaped swimming pool of their apartment complex. And then she won’t come out.   A consuming, single-sitting read set over the course of eight hours, THE MOST breaches the shimmering surface of a seemingly idyllic mid-century marriage, immersing us in the unspoken truth beneath. As Sputnik 2 orbits the earth carrying Laika, the doomed Soviet dog, Kathleen and Virgil hurtle towards each other until they arrive at a reckoning that will either shatter their marriage, or transform it, at last, into something real.  ","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46958776385776,"sku":"9780316576376","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780316576376_p0.jpg?v=1763784959","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316576376","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}