{"product_id":"9780692235904","title":"The Lion Trees: Part One: Unraveling","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if survival required you to unlearn who you are? How far would you fall to save yourself? Sometimes happiness is a long way down. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Johns family is unraveling. Hollis, a retired Ohio banker, isolates himself in esoteric hobbies and a dangerous flirtation with a colleague's daughter. Susan, his wife of forty years, risks everything for a second chance at who she might have become. David, their eldest, thrashes to stay afloat as his teaching career capsizes in a storm of accusations involving a missing student and the legacy of Christopher Columbus. And young Tilly, the black sheep, having traded literary promise for an improbable career as a Hollywood starlet, struggles to define herself amid salacious scandal, the demands of a powerful director, and the judgments of an uncompromising writer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy turns comical and poignant, the Johns family is tumbling toward the discovery that sometimes you have to let go of your identity to find out who you are.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e[A] cerebral page turner...a powerful and promising debut.-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e[Five Stars]...\u003ci\u003e[A] powerful, gripping and realistic story...The Lion Trees does what so very few great novels can: it will take a lot out of you, but leave you with much more than you had when you began \u003c\/i\u003e-\u003cb\u003ePacific Book Reviews, \u003c\/b\u003ea five star review. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"OTF Literary","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49971663470832,"sku":"9780692235904","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780692235904","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}