{"product_id":"9780547523590","title":"The Book of Ruth","description":"\u003cb\u003ePEN\/Hemingway Award Winner: An “enthralling” novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e From the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e–bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Excellent Lombards\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Map of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, this is “an extraordinary story of a family’s disintegration [that] will be compared to Jane Smiley’s \u003ci\u003eA Thousand Acres\u003c\/i\u003e” (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e). It follows Ruth Grey, a young woman in a tiny Illinois farm town, who has lost her father to World War II, and constantly faces her unhappy mother’s wrath—when she isn’t being ignored in favor of her math-prodigy brother. As Ruth navigates her lonely life, she strives to find happiness and pleasure where she can, but the world may conspire to defeat her.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “A sly and wistful, if harrowing, human comedy . . . [An] original voice in fiction and one well worth listening to.” —\u003ci\u003eThe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Sunday Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Unforgettably, beat by beat, Hamilton maps the best and worst of the human heart and all the mysterious, uncharted country in between.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Hamilton’s story builds to a shocking crescendo. Her small-town characters are as appealingly offbeat and brushed with grace as any found in Alice Hoffman’s or Anne Tyler’s novels.” —\u003ci\u003eGlamour\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123780108528,"sku":"9780547523590","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547523590_p0.jpg?v=1763716012","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547523590","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}