{"product_id":"9781566891035","title":"Write Letter to Billy","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wonderful story of what family means, of the flesh-level pain of sibling rivalry, and the discovery of love. It is a fantastic and beautiful tapestry of some of the most imaginative and precise prose writing going on in America today. Toby Olson stands tall among the handful of writers I most admire and respect.—Richard Wiley\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eWrite A Letter to Billy\u003c\/i\u003e is a delectably complicated maze that kept me spellbound from start to finish. Only the most sophisticated of writers could manage to combine the seriousness of a quest for identity and meaning with the intensity of a thriller, not to mention an excursion into deep-sea diving and the resort life of southern California. Once again, Toby Olson has written a terrific novel full of peril and surprise, offering startling revelations and sudden expansions of the heart and mind.\"—Lynne Sharon Schwartz\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnited with a long-lost teenage daughter, a retired Navy underwater repair specialist investigates a mysterious list his father had written just before his death. Some of the items are crossed off, but one of the unfinished tasks haunts him: \"Write letter to Billy.\" What had his father planned to tell him? What he learns changes his life forever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInfluenced by D.H. Lawrence, William Faulkner, and Charles Dickens, Toby Olson’s pointed examination of memory and consciousness illustrates how the unraveling of external mystery leads to self discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eToby Olson\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the PEN\/Faulkner Award for fiction, has published eight books of fiction and twenty-two books of poetry. His work has appeared in over two hundred newspapers, magazines, and anthologies. Olson’s novels include \u003ci\u003eAt Sea\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eDorit in Lesbos, Utah,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Woman Who Escaped from Shame.\u003c\/i\u003e He lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and North Truro, Massachusetts.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coffee House Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47049575497968,"sku":"9781566891035","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781566891035_p0.jpg?v=1763790008","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781566891035","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}