{"product_id":"9781555974343","title":"A House at the Edge of Tears","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the city of Beirut, five shabby dwellings circle a courtyard with a pomegranate tree weeping blood red fruit. The residents hear screams in the night as a boy is tossed out into the street by his father—a punishment for masturbating in his sleep. A crime not worthy of the punishment: the neighbors gossip and decide that he must have tried to rape his sisters. \"Small-boned with long, silky lashes, no one but the devil could camouflage evil so seductively.\" The poems he writes are perhaps an even greater crime to his father, but ultimately a gift to his eldest sister, who narrates their story with a combination of brutal truth and stunning prose. As her brother becomes more and more lost to his family and to himself, we also learn of a Contessa who teaches tango, a family who spends every Sunday in search of buried treasure, and the miracle of a weeping Madonna statue that cries when human tears run dry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the harrowing and mesmerizing novel \u003ci\u003eA House at the Edge of Tears\u003c\/i\u003e, celebrated novelist and poet, Khoury-Ghata, presents the disintegration of a family and a country—both ruled by a fury fueled by fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Graywolf Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300902486256,"sku":"9781555974343","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781555974343_p0.jpg?v=1763753571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781555974343","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}