{"product_id":"9781466828148","title":"Love Is a Canoe: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeter Herman is something of a folk hero. \u003ci\u003eMarriage Is a Canoe\u003c\/i\u003e,  his legendary, decades-old book on love and relationships, has won the  hearts of hopeful romantics and desperate cynics alike. He and his  beloved wife lived a relatively peaceful life in upstate New York. But  now it's 2010, and Peter's wife has just died. Completely lost, he  passes the time with a woman he admires but doesn't love-and he begins  to look back through the pages of his book and question hom­ilies such  as:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA good marriage is a canoe-it needs care and isn't meant to hold too much-no more than two adults and a few kids.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's advice he has famously doled out for decades. But what is it worth?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Peter receives a call from Stella Petrovic, an ambitious young editor who wants to celebrate the fif­tieth anniversary of \u003ci\u003eMarriage Is a Canoe \u003c\/i\u003ewith a contest for struggling couples. The prize? An afternoon with Peter and a chance to save their relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe  contest ensnares its creator in the largely opaque politics of her  publishing house while it intro­duces the reader to couples in various  states of distress, including a shy thirtysomething Brooklynite and her  charismatic and entrepreneurial husband, who may just be a bit too  charismatic for the good of their marriage. There's the middle-aged  publisher whose im­posing manner has managed to impose loneliness on her  for longer than she cares to admit. And then there is Peter, who must  discover what he \u003ci\u003emeant \u003c\/i\u003ewhen he wrote \u003ci\u003eMarriage Is a Canoe \u003c\/i\u003eif he is going to help the contest's winners and find a way to love again. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLove Is a Canoe\u003c\/i\u003e,  Ben Schrank delivers a smart, funny, romantic, and hugely satisfying  novel about the fragility of marriage and the difficulty of repairing  the damage when well-intentioned people forget how to be good to each  other.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47176886321392,"sku":"9781466828148","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466828148_p0.jpg?v=1769891206","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466828148","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}