{"product_id":"9781101547779","title":"The Grief of Others","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe subtly powerful novel adapted into the 2015 feature film,\u003ci\u003e The Grief of Others\u003c\/i\u003e asks: is keeping a secret from a spouse always an act of infidelity? And what cost does such a secret exact on a family?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Ryries have suffered a loss: the death of a baby just fifty-seven  hours  after his birth. Without words to express their grief, the parents, John  and  Ricky, try to return to their previous lives. Struggling to regain a  semblance  of normalcy for themselves and for their two older children, they find  themselves pretending not only that little has changed, but that their  marriage,  their family, have always been intact. Yet in the aftermath of the baby's  death,  long-suppressed uncertainties about their relationship come roiling to  the  surface. A dreadful secret emerges with reverberations that reach far  into their  past and threaten their future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe couple's children, ten-year-old Biscuit and thirteen-year-old  Paul,  responding to the unnamed tensions around them, begin to act out in  exquisitely- perhaps courageously-idiosyncratic ways. But as the four family members  scatter  into private, isolating grief, an unexpected visitor arrives, and they  all find  themselves growing more alert to the sadness and burdens of others-to the  grief  that is part of every human life but that also carries within it the  power to  draw us together.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving, psychologically acute, and gorgeously written, \u003ci\u003eThe Grief of  Others\u003c\/i\u003e asks how we balance personal autonomy with the intimacy of  relationships, how we balance private decisions with the obligations of  belonging to a family, and how we take measure of our own sorrows in a  world  rife with suffering. This novel shows how one family, by finally allowing  itself  to experience the shared quality of grief, is able to rekindle tenderness  and  hope.\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":47120756932848,"sku":"9781101547779","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101547779_p0.jpg?v=1763687735","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101547779","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}