{"product_id":"9780547669236","title":"Before the Rain: A Memoir of Love and Revolution","description":"In a voice haunting and filled with longing, \u003ci\u003eBefore the Rain\u003c\/i\u003e tells the  story of love unexpected, its fragile bounds and subtle perils. As a  newspaper editor in the ’80s, Luisita Torregrosa lived her career. Enter  Elizabeth, a striking, reserved, and elusive writer with whom  Torregrosa falls deeply in love. Their story—irresistible romance,  overlapping ambitions, and fragile union—unfolds as the narrative shifts  to the Philippines and the fall of Ferdinand Marcos. There, on that  beautiful, troubled island, the couple creates a world of their own,  while covering political chaos and bloody upheavals. What was effortless  abroad becomes less idyllic when they return to the United States, and  their ending becomes as surprising and revealing as their beginning.  Torregrosa captures the way love transforms those who experience it for  an unforgettable, but often too brief, time. This book is distinguished  not only by its strong, unique, and conflicted heroines, but also by  Torregrosa’s lyrical portrait of the Philippines and the even more  exotic heart of intimacy.","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104547160304,"sku":"9780547669236","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547669236_p0.jpg?v=1763717243","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547669236","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}