{"product_id":"9781402294884","title":"The Weight of Winter: A Novel","description":"Winner of the New England Book Award\"Cathie Pelletier generates the sort of excitement that only writers at the very top of their form can provide.\"-Stephen King\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWelcome to Mattagash, Maine, a small, quirky town where everyone's personal lives are as entwined as their family trees.\u003c\/strong\u003e On the day of the first snowfall, the residents brace themselves for the long winter ahead. Mere survival will be hard; dealing with each other is another story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs winter settles in, various Mattagashians careen from conundrum to conundrum, trying to save dying small businesses, caring for crabby loved ones, and cruising through town, stirring up gossip any way they can get it. Through it all, \u003cstrong\u003e107-year old Mathilda Fennelson reflects on her life as the town's oldest resident\u003c\/strong\u003e, born the year Mattagash was founded. Through her dreams and memories, she reveals the scrappy, strange, and earnest pioneer history of these people weighed down by their own existence. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAt once funny, insightful, and heartbreaking\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of Winter\u003c\/em\u003e is a perfect for fans of \u003cem\u003eOlive Kitteridge (Elizabeth Strout)\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Language of Flowers (Vanessa Diffenbaugh)\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Good House\u003c\/em\u003e (Ann Leary) who will fall in love with Mattagash and its people. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMore from Mattagash, Maine:\u003cbr\u003e The Funeral Makers (Book 1):\u003c\/strong\u003e Mattagash, Maine:  a quiet town rocked by scandal, seduction, mayhem, blackmail, and the only recorded case of beriberi on the entire North American continent! \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWedding on the Banks (Book 2):\u003c\/strong\u003e Amy Joy Lawler just announced her engagement-to an outsider!\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eThe Weight of Winter (Book 3) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe One-Way Bridge (Book 4): \u003c\/strong\u003eReturn to Mattagash-the anything but tranquil town where a mysterious dead body has just been found in the woods.\u003c\/p\u003eWhat readers are saying about \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of Winter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"While \u003cstrong\u003ewildly funny\u003c\/strong\u003e at time, \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of Winter\u003c\/em\u003e is a much darker and even more \u003cstrong\u003ecompelling\u003c\/strong\u003e novel than was the first book in the series.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWonderfully written\u003c\/strong\u003e with humor, yet extremely hard-hitting.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"This was one of those books that I looked forward to falling back into each time I picked it up, and each time, \u003cstrong\u003eit felt like going home\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"\u003c\/p\u003eWhat reviewers are saying about \u003cem\u003eThe Weight of Winter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Pelletier's ear for dialogue is \u003cstrong\u003eexceptional\u003c\/strong\u003e, and her characters' interior monologues, what they think but don't say, are subversive, humorous and heartbreaking.\"-Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"\u003cstrong\u003eFrequently funny and always poignant\u003c\/strong\u003e, it is a chronicle of past and present times, detailing lost dreams, found meaning, and echoing the sins of generations.\"-Library Journal\u003c\/p\u003eWhat people are saying about Cathie Pelletier \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \"\u003c\/strong\u003eNobody \u003cstrong\u003ewalks the knife-edge of hilarity and heartbreak\u003c\/strong\u003e more confidently than Cathie Pelletier.\"— Richard Russo, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003eEmpire Falls\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is Pelletier's gift to be able to coax the \u003cstrong\u003edrama\u003c\/strong\u003e from stony ground without artifice or sentimentality.\"-Boston Globe\u003cbr\u003e\"An \u003cstrong\u003eambitious, fearless\u003c\/strong\u003e novelist.\"-The Washington Post\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \"Cathie does a wonderful job of capturing [her characters'] moods and loves and losses, and yearnings...Her writing is \u003cstrong\u003elovely\u003c\/strong\u003e and so \u003cstrong\u003edescriptive\u003c\/strong\u003e\"— Annie Philbrick, Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Sharp stuff...Her sentences are\u003cstrong\u003e powerful and unique as snowflakes\u003c\/strong\u003e.\"-\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sourcebooks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47137800519920,"sku":"9781402294884","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781402294884_p0.jpg?v=1763715006","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781402294884","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}