{"product_id":"9780802195975","title":"The Witches on the Road Tonight","description":"\u003cb\u003e“This richly layered novel” from the acclaimed author of\u003ci\u003e The Dress Lodger\u003c\/i\u003e explores Americana, witchcraft, love, and betrayal (\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e As a child growing up in Depression-era rural Virginia, Eddie Alley’s quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his mother’s witchcraft. But when an outsider violently disrupts the spell of his mother’s unorthodox life, Eddie is inspired to pursue a future beyond the confines of his dead-end town.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e He leaves for New York and becomes a television horror-movie presenter beloved for his kitschy comedy. When he opens his family’s door to a homeless teenager working as an intern at the TV station, the boy’s presence not only awakens something in Eddie, but also in his twelve-year-old daughter, Wallis, who has begun to feel a strange kinship to her notorious grandmother.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e As the ghost stories of one generation infiltrate the next, Wallis and Eddie grapple with the sins of the past in this gripping novel that “explores the dark vein of magic that runs just beneath our real lives” (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Holman is a master of the miniature. She uses tiny, achingly accurate details to bring each moment to life on the page; her sentences sing . . . [her] most ambitious and successful yet.” —\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Holman has an imagination that is both capacious and meticulous, and by turns somber and antic . . . \u003ci\u003eWitches on the Road Tonight\u003c\/i\u003e is a path into her work that beckons, with strange lights and mysterious apparitions.” —Jane Smiley, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Mysterious, beautiful, and immediately engrossing . . . A tour de force of meticulous research brought urgently to life by headlong, transporting prose.” —Jennifer Egan, author of \u003ci\u003eManhattan Beach \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Visit From the Goon Squad\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128617844976,"sku":"9780802195975","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780802195975_p0.jpg?v=1763738214","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780802195975","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}