{"product_id":"9781466876293","title":"Stone Field, True Arrow: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eMaya Ishida is no stranger to sorrow. Torn from her artist father in her native Japan, raised by her cold, ambitious mother in Minneapolis, she has finally put together a life with few disruptions: a safe marriage and a quiet life weaving clothes in a country studio. The past is no more than a story she vaguely remembers; the present is a gray landscape of solitary pleasures and modest expectations.\u003cbr\u003eAfter her father dies, Maya is pulled back into the memory of their parting. In his many stories of Orpheus and Eurydice and of the \u003ci\u003etennyo\u003c\/i\u003e, a mythic Japanese figure, he had taught her that love means making the sacrifice of letting go. And so she had walked away from him without looking back. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-four years later, holding her father's last sketch, Maya knows she can avoid looking back no longer. She must question her placid marriage, her decision not to become an artist, and even the precarious peace she has made with her mother before she can be released--to feel passion, risk change, and fall in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKyoko Mori's young adult novel, \u003ci\u003eShizuko's Daughter\u003c\/i\u003e, was hailed in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e as \"a jewel...one of those rarities that shine out only a few times in a generation.\" In \u003ci\u003eStone Field, True Arrow\u003c\/i\u003e, her first novel for adults, she sheds brilliant light on eternal questions about life and love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Holt, Henry \u0026 Company, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47182752415984,"sku":"9781466876293","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466876293_p0.jpg?v=1769891945","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466876293","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}