{"product_id":"9781451657692","title":"Above Us Only Sky: A Novel","description":"A “gripping, heartwarming” (\u003ci\u003eBookpage\u003c\/i\u003e) novel about a family separated by oceans, generations, and war, but connected by something much greater—the gift of wings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn March 29, 1973, Prudence Eleanor Vilkas was born with heart-shaped wings pressed accordion-style against her back. Considered a birth defect, her wings were surgically removed, leaving only the ghost of them behind. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn 1980, Prudence’s mother takes her from Nashville to Florida, to a town inhabited by people who have run as far as they can without fins or wings. In this new town, Prudence is befriended by a boy who can see what others can’t, including Prudence’s ghostly wings.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe unexpected and unimaginable bubble up from the depths of the Atlantic to confront Prudence when she meets her long-estranged Lithuanian grandfather and discovers a miraculous lineage beating and pulsing with past Lithuanian bird-women, storytellers with wings dragging the dirt, survivors perched on radio towers, lovers lit up like fireworks and heroes disguised as everyday men and women.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAbove Us Only Sky\u003c\/i\u003e spans the 1863 January Uprising against Russian Tsarist rule in Eastern Europe to the fall of the Berlin Wall and Lithuania’s independence in 1991. It is a “daring, imaginative” (\u003ci\u003eMilepost\u003c\/i\u003e magazine) story of mutual understanding between the old and young; it is a love story, a story of survival, and most importantly, a story about disovering where we belong in the world. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eYoung-Stone seamlessly balances Lithuanian history with magical realism in this “amazing, spellbinding, incredible journey” (\u003ci\u003eLiterary Hoarders\u003c\/i\u003e).","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176980496624,"sku":"9781451657692","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781451657692_p0.jpg?v=1763842971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781451657692","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}