{"product_id":"9781466855113","title":"Accidents: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA captivating first novel of family, sex, love, and death from an \"extraordinary\" writer of \"remarkable emotional power\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e       (Maureen Howard, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Shira Klein, Yonatan Luria, and his daughter, Dana, it is winter-winter at work, winter among friends, winter at home, and winter of the heart. Yonatan is a marginal writer, a fifty-year-old widower left to raise his child alone. When he meets Shira, a bestselling author paralyzed by stage fright, the thaw begins as man, woman, and girl enter a halting romance, alternately tender and belligerent, generous and withdrawn.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo the accompaniment of a full chorus of voices-of friends, neighbors, ex-lovers, parents-speaking from the past as well as the present, this family in the making gropes its way toward the comfort of love while navigating through ordinary pains: a dying father, angry children, wounding moments, and a distressing difference in the writers' levels of success which they wish would vanish even as it grows. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn ensemble story marked by Yael Hedaya's exquisite sensitivity, \u003ci\u003eAccidents\u003c\/i\u003e follows its cast through fragility, vulnerability, and joy, accruing the small events of unremarkable days to produce a grand vision of the shared life. Rarely has the fictional world of family been plumbed with such knowingness, humor, and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125924118768,"sku":"9781466855113","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466855113_p0.jpg?v=1769891487","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466855113","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}