{"product_id":"9780393248722","title":"Silver and Salt: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA beautifully crafted novel about the tragic effects of a devastating childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“There was a child in our courtyard. I saw a child there, standing by the fountain. She was there, then she was gone.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn the death of the celebrated photographer Max Hollingbourne, his daughter, Ruthie, returns to his villa in Greece after fifteen years in exile. The youngest and estranged member of a once close-knit London family, Ruthie is haunted by a dark secret from her childhood, one that fractured her family and drove her mother to madness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eStill, following her father’s death, she and her older sister, Vinny, manage to build a fragile happiness at the villa where they had spent their summers as girls. But the arrival of an English family at a neighboring cottage, and the presence of one young girl in particular, trigger a chain of events that will plunge both women back into their harrowing pasts with shocking and fatal consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHaunting, lyrical, and beautifully crafted, \u003cem\u003eSilver and Salt\u003c\/em\u003e is a profoundly moving novel about the consequences of love and betrayal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Norton, W. W. \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104125862128,"sku":"9780393248722","price":22.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780393248722_p0.jpg?v=1769892979","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780393248722","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}