{"product_id":"9781608194735","title":"Raising Wrecker: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter foster-parenting four young siblings a decade ago, Summer Wood \u003cbr\u003etried to imagine a place where kids who are left alone or taken from \u003cbr\u003etheir families would find the love and the family they deserve. For her,\u003cbr\u003e fiction was the tool to realize that world, and Wrecker, the central \u003cbr\u003echaracter in her second novel, is the abandoned child for whom life \u003cbr\u003eturns around in most unexpected ways. It's June of 1965 when Wrecker \u003cbr\u003eenters the world. The war is raging in Vietnam, San Francisco is \u003cbr\u003etripping toward flower power, and Lisa Fay, Wrecker's birth mother, is \u003cbr\u003eknocked nearly sideways by life as a single parent in a city she can \u003cbr\u003ebarely manage to navigate on her own. Three years later, she's in \u003cbr\u003eprison, and Wrecker is left to bounce around in the system before he's \u003cbr\u003eshipped off to live with distant relatives in the wilds of Humboldt \u003cbr\u003eCounty, California. When he arrives he's scared and angry, exploding at \u003cbr\u003ethe least thing, and quick to flee. \u003ci\u003eWrecker\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of this \u003cbr\u003eboy and the motley group of isolated eccentrics who come together to \u003cbr\u003eraise him and become a family along the way.\u003c\/p\u003eFor readers taken with the special boy at the center of \u003ci\u003eThe Story of Edgar Sawtelle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWrecker\u003c\/i\u003e will be a welcome companion.","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184259121392,"sku":"9781608194735","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608194735_p0.jpg?v=1763835061","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608194735","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}