{"product_id":"9780698140677","title":"The Gilded Hour","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe international bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eInto the Wilderness \u003c\/i\u003emakes her highly anticipated return with\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea magnificent epic about two women doctors in nineteenth-century New York and the transcendent power of courage and love…\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The year is 1883, and in New York City, it’s a time of dizzying splendor, crushing poverty, and tremendous change. With the gravity-defying Brooklyn Bridge nearly complete and New York in the grips of antivice crusader Anthony Comstock, Dr. Anna Savard and her cousin, Sophie—both graduates of the Women’s Medical School—treat the city’s most vulnerable, even if doing so may put everything they’ve strived for in jeopardy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For Anna, her work as a surgeon has placed her in the path of four children who have lost everything, just as she herself once had. Faced with their helplessness, Anna must make an unexpected choice between holding on to the pain of her past and letting love into her life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e For Sophie, an obstetrician and the orphaned daughter of free people of color, helping a desperate young mother forces her to grapple with the oath she took as a doctor—and thrusts her and Anna into the orbit of Anthony Comstock, a dangerous man who considers himself the enemy of everything indecent and of anyone who dares to defy him.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With its vivid depictions of old New York and its enormously appealing characters, \u003ci\u003eThe Gilded Hour\u003c\/i\u003e is a captivating, emotionally gripping novel that proves Sara Donati is an author at the height of her powers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47111735902448,"sku":"9780698140677","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780698140677_p0.jpg?v=1763620244","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780698140677","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}