{"product_id":"9781429950978","title":"The Starboard Sea: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A rich, quietly artful novel that is bound for deep water, with questions of beauty, power and spiritual navigation as its main concerns. The title refers not to the right side of a boat but to the right course through life, and the immense difficulty of finding and following it.\"--Janet Maslin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA powerful first novel about life and death, friendship and love, as one young man must navigate the depths of his emotions.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJASON PROSPER\u003c\/b\u003e grew up in the elite world of Manhattan penthouses, Maine summer estates, old-boy prep schools, and exclusive sailing clubs. A smart, athletic teenager, Jason maintains a healthy, humorous disdain for the trappings of affluence, preferring to spend afternoons sailing with Cal, his best friend and boarding-school roommate. When Cal commits suicide during their junior year at Kensington Prep, Jason is devastated by the loss and transfers to Bellingham Academy. There, he meets Aidan, a fellow student with her own troubled past. They embark on a tender, awkward, deeply emotional relationship. \u003cbr\u003eWhen a major hurricane hits the New England coast, the destruction it causes brings with it another upheaval in Jason's life, forcing him to make sense of a terrible secret that has been buried by the boys he considers his friends.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet against the backdrop of the 1987 stock market collapse, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Starboard Sea\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis an examination of the abuses of class privilege, the mutability of sexual desire, the thrill and risk of competitive sailing, and the adult cost of teenage recklessness. It is a powerful and provocative novel about a young man finding his moral center, trying to forgive himself, and accepting the gift of love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127394779376,"sku":"9781429950978","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429950978_p0.jpg?v=1769901932","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429950978","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}