{"product_id":"9780802192011","title":"We Are Now Beginning Our Descent: A Novel","description":"\u003cbr\u003eJames Meek’s masterful historical novel, \u003ci\u003eThe People’s Act of Love\u003c\/i\u003e received accolades around the world, earning Meek comparisons to Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Conrad, and Greene. \u003ci\u003eWe Are Now Beginning Our Descent\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour de force of storytelling, furthering his reputation as one of the most exciting and original young novelists writing today.\u003cbr\u003eAdam Kellas, a British journalist, would-be thriller novelist, and failed lover meets Astrid Walsh, a self-possessed, hard-charging reporter while the two are covering allied military operations in the Afghan mountains. After sharing one passionate night in a watchtower near a defunct airfield, Astrid disappears from Kellas’s life.\u003cbr\u003eA year later, following a disastrous dinner party in London during which he destroys his few remaining friendships, Kellas receives a short, beseeching e-mail and hastily embarks on a trans-Atlantic journey to a small town near the Chesapeake Bay where he believes Astrid waits for him. Kellas envisions the fresh start that his new life with Astrid might offer, unaware that she may be harboring unsettling secrets of her own.\u003cbr\u003eA passionate, incisive novel, \u003ci\u003eWe Are Now Beginning Our Descent\u003c\/i\u003e lays bare the entwined hypocrisies, foibles, and desires of our age, and is a testament to the obsessive pull of love.","brand":"Canongate U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127951442160,"sku":"9780802192011","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802192011_p0.jpg?v=1763666054","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802192011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}