{"product_id":"9780345501103","title":"Driving Sideways","description":"\u003cp\u003eLeigh Fielding wants a life. Seriously. Having spent the past five years on dialysis, she has one simple wish: to make it to her thirtieth birthday. Now, thanks to the generosity of the late Larry Resnick and his transplanted kidney, it looks like her wish may come true.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith her newfound vitality (and Larry’s kidney) in tow, Leigh hits the road for an excursion that will carry her from Wisconsin to California, with a few stops in between: Mount Rushmore, the Badlands, the Rockies, Las Vegas–and a memorable visit to thank Larry’s family for the second chance.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet Leigh’s itinerary takes a sudden detour when she picks up a seventeen-year-old hitchhiker, Denise, a runaway with a bunch of stories and a couple of secrets. Add a long-lost mother, a loaded gun, an RV full of swingers, and Hall and Oates’s Greatest Hits to the mix, and\u003ci\u003e Driving Sideways\u003c\/i\u003e becomes a hilarious and original journey of friendship, hope, and discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eDriving Sideways:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Driving Sideways is a gorgeous novel . . . hugely entertaining and very touching. Jess Riley’s voice is irreverent and wonderful, and her writing is genius.”\u003cbr\u003e–Marian Keyes, author of \u003ci\u003eAnybody Out There?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A hopeful and hilarious debut ... Jess Riley may well be my new favorite author.\" –Jen Lancaster, author of \u003ci\u003eBitter is the New Black\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Brilliant . . . Jess Riley proves herself a huge new talent.”\u003cbr\u003e–Kristy Kiernan, author of \u003ci\u003eCatching Genius\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Random House Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046031606000,"sku":"9780345501103","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780345501103_p0.jpg?v=1763687656","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780345501103","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}