{"product_id":"9781439129982","title":"Wide Blue Yonder","description":"\u003cb\u003eA National Book Award finalist for her story collection \u003ci\u003eWho Do You Love,\u003c\/i\u003e Jean Thompson towers into the stratosphere with her new novel, \u003ci\u003eWide Blue Yonder.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is the summer of 1999, and something big and bad is coming to Springfield, Illinois, \"the place the Weather lived.\" \u003ci\u003eWide Blue Yonder\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about weather in all its permutations -- climatic, emotional, even metaphysical. Our guides through this summer of blazing heat and fearsome storms compose an unlikely quartet, each preparing in some measure for the end of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUncle Harvey believes he is the Weather Channel's \"Local Forecast.\" Yet even an arsenal of meteorological facts and figures can't stanch his existential fears. Harvey's niece, Josie, is fixed with a different predicament. She's seventeen, with nowhere to get to in the Land of Lincoln except into deep trouble. Josie's mother, Elaine, feigns cheerful efficiency, desperately masking a far more urgent quest. And then there's the loner Rolando, who hails from Los Angeles. A human storm system fueled by boundless rage, Rolando is on course to make Springfield the ground zero of his wrath. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNewsweek memorably described Thompson's previous collection, \u003ci\u003eWho Do You Love,\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a beautiful book, but a hell of a sad one.\" \u003ci\u003eWide Blue Yonder\u003c\/i\u003e burns brighter, yet moves in the same mysterious ways.","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154737447152,"sku":"9781439129982","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781439129982_p0.jpg?v=1763758629","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781439129982","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}