{"product_id":"9780802143129","title":"Wonder House","description":"\u003cp\u003e“Rich with sensual detail, making for vivid impressions.”  — \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJustine Hardy is an English journalist, a best-selling author, and a filmmaker who has spent much of the past fifteen years living in India. With her American debut, \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder House\u003c\/i\u003e , Hardy has crafted an unforgettable love story set in the turbulent region of Kashmir, one of the most beautiful and broken places in the world. On Nagin Lake sits moored a houseboat called \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder House\u003c\/i\u003e , on which Englishwoman, Gracie Singh, has been living out her widowhood since the death of her Indian husband. From \u003ci\u003eThe Wonder House\u003c\/i\u003e Gracie has watched the valley become brutally disfigured by Pakistan and India’s drawn-out clash over this coveted territory — just as she has watched her best friend and landlord, Masood Abdullah, change from a jeans-wearing, flirtatious young man to an anxious father hemmed in by growing Islamic orthodoxy. Soon after Masood’s nephew disappears to join an extremist militant group, Hal, a journalist from England, comes to interview Gracie, putting them all in grave danger. Told by and about a Western woman’s immersion in the endlessly alluring and troubled Islamic culture of North India, Justine Hardy’s gorgeous and gritty novel about human passions in a battered valley is a vital addition to the literature about India.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Atlantic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47015108149488,"sku":"9780802143129","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802143129_p0.jpg?v=1766595617","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802143129","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}