{"product_id":"9780345441133","title":"Summer Island","description":"The author of the cherished bestseller \u003ci\u003eOn Mystic Lake\u003c\/i\u003e returns with a  poignant, funny, luminous novel about a mother and daughter--the complex  ties that bind them, the past that separates them, and the healing that  comes with forgiveness.  \u003cp\u003eYears ago, Nora Bridge walked out on her marriage and left her daughters  behind. She has since become a famous radio talk-show host and newspaper  columnist beloved for her moral advice. Her youngest daughter, Ruby, is a  struggling comedienne who uses her famous mother as fuel for her bitter,  cynical humor. When the tabloids unearth a scandalous secret from Nora's  past, their estrangement suddenly becomes dramatic: Nora is injured in an  accident and a glossy magazine offers Ruby a fortune to write a tell-all  about her mother. Under false pretenses, Ruby returns home to take care of  the woman she hasn't spoken to for almost a decade.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNora insists they retreat to Summer Island in the San Juans, to the lovely  old house on the water where Ruby grew up, a place filled with childhood  memories of love and joy and belonging. There Ruby is also reunited with her  first love and his brother. Once, the three of them had been best friends,  inseparable. Until the summer that Nora had left and everyone's hearts had  been broken. . . .   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat began as an expose evolves, as Ruby writes, into an exploration of her family's past. Nora is not the woman Ruby has hated all these years. Witty,  wise, and vulnerable, she is desperate to reconcile with her daughter. As  the magazine deadline draws near and Ruby finishes what has begun to seem to her an act of brutal betrayal, she is forced to grow up and at last to look  at her mother--and herself--through the eyes of a woman. And she must,  finally, allow herself to love.  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer Island\u003c\/i\u003e is a beautiful novel, funny, tender, sad, and ultimately  triumphant.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKristin Hannah is the bestselling author of On Mystic Lake and Angel Falls. She lives with her husband and son on an island in the Pacific Northwest.   \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024758325488,"sku":"9780345441133","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345441133_p0.jpg?v=1763687124","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345441133","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}