{"product_id":"9781476713106","title":"How Strange a Season: Fiction","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Dazzling.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, Editors’ Choice\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Richly satisfying.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“These are stories you want to live in...a collection perfectly suited for our moment.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of stories “so beautifully crafted they feel like tiny worlds unto themselves” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e) about women experiencing all life’s beauty and challenges, from award-winning writer Megan Mayhew Bergman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA recently separated woman fills a huge terrarium with rare flowers to establish control over a small world and attempt to heal her broken heart. A competitive swimmer negotiates over which days she will fulfill her wifely duties, and which days she will keep for herself. A peach farmer wonders if her orchard will survive a drought. And generations of a family in South Carolina struggle with fidelity and their cruel past, some clinging to old ways and others painfully carving new paths.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn this “closely observed” (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker) \u003c\/i\u003ecollection, Megan Mayhew Bergman portrays women who wrestle with problematic inheritances: a modern glass house on a treacherous California cliff, a water-starved ranch, and an abandoned plantation on a river near Charleston. “Bergman’s stories are so emotionally rich that they serve as portals into distinct interior worlds...this collection is distinct and vivid...As singular as it is atmospheric” (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).","brand":"Scribner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47048987050224,"sku":"9781476713106","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781476713106_p0.jpg?v=1763609361","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781476713106","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}