{"product_id":"9781555849184","title":"The Good Parents: A Novel","description":"A two-time winner of Australia’s prestigious \u003ci\u003eThe Age\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Year Award, Joan London’s debut novel, \u003ci\u003eGilgamesh\u003c\/i\u003e, was published to rapturous acclaim both in her native Australia and in the United States. Now, London has delivered \u003ci\u003eThe Good Parents\u003c\/i\u003e, a tender and compelling tale of mother love and the harrowing moment when a daughter spreads her wings and vanishes from her parents’ orbit. Maya de Jong is an eighteen-year-old country girl who moves to Melbourne and begins an affair with her new boss. When Maya’s parents, Toni and Jacob, arrive for a visit, Maya is gone—no one knows where. Maya, for reasons of her own, leaves haunting clues in late-night calls to her brother at home, carefully avoiding detection by the two people who love her most. Ultimately, to find her daughter Toni will have to revisit a part of her past that she thought she had shut off forever—the closest she ever came to being a lost girl herself. \u003ci\u003eThe Good Parents\u003c\/i\u003e is at once utterly contemporary and a story as old as humanity itself: a stunning portrait of familial love and how far we can drift apart in the moments between the words we speak.","brand":"Grove\/Atlantic, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47133748822256,"sku":"9781555849184","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555849184_p0.jpg?v=1763753512","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555849184","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}