{"product_id":"9781478945840","title":"Desperation Road","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Amazon Best Book of the Month\u003cbr\u003eAn Indie Next Pick\u003cbr\u003eA Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Pick\u003cbr\u003eOne of\u003ci\u003e Southern Living\u003c\/i\u003e's Best Southern Books of 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the vein of Daniel Woodrell's \u003ci\u003eWinter's Bone\u003c\/i\u003e and the works of Ron Rash, a novel set in a tough-and-tumble Mississippi town where drugs, whiskey, guns, and the desire for revenge violently intersect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor eleven years the clock has been ticking for Russell Gaines as he sits in Parchman Penitentiary in the Mississippi Delta. His sentence is now up, and he believes his debt has been paid. But when he returns home, he soon discovers that revenge lives and breathes all around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the same day that Russell is released from prison, a woman named Maben and her young daughter trudge along the side of the interstate under the punishing summer sun. Desperate and exhausted, the pair spend their last dollar on a room for the night, a night that ends with Maben running through the darkness holding a pistol, and a dead deputy sprawled in the middle o the road in the glow of his own headlights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith the dawn, destinies collide, and Russell is forced to decide whose life he will save—his own or those of the woman and child.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDelivered in powerful and lyrical prose, \u003ci\u003eDesperation Road\u003c\/i\u003e is a story of troubled souls twisted with regret and bound by secrets that stretch over the years and across the land.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47044469784816,"sku":"9781478945840","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781478945840_p0.jpg?v=1763616301","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781478945840","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}