{"product_id":"9780984764846","title":"The Loved Ones","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this masterful novel of inheritance and loss, Sonya Chung (\u003ci\u003eLong for This World\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eproves herself a worthy heir to Marguerite Duras, Hwang Sun-won, and James Salter. Spanning generations and divergent cultures, \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e maps the intimate politics of unlikely attractions, illicit love, and costly reconciliations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles Lee, the young African American patriarch of a biracial family, seeks to remedy his fatherless childhood in Washington, DC, by making an honorable choice when his chance arrives. Years later in the mid-1980s, uneasy and stymied in his marriage to Alice, he finds a connection with Hannah Lee, the teenage Korean American caregiver whose parents’ transgressive flight from tradition and war has left them shrouded in a cloud of secrets and muted passion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shocking and senseless death will test every familial bond and force all who are touched by the tragedy to reexamine who their loved ones truly are—the very meaning of the words. Haunting, elliptical, and powerful, \u003ci\u003eThe Loved Ones\u003c\/i\u003e deconstructs the world we think we know and shows us the one we inhabit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Relegation Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035793670384,"sku":"9780984764846","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780984764846_p0.jpg?v=1763888369","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780984764846","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}