{"product_id":"9781932727036","title":"Appearances","description":"In its nuanced portrait of a middle-aged suburbanite and his family, APPEARANCES challenges easy assumptions about the nature of kinship and selfhood, of crime and punishment, of appearance and reality.\u003cp\u003eSteven Howe-Boomer, lawyer, family man-has settled into midlife contentment. Then, unexpectedly, Steven finds himself doubly shaken by something that a data search uncovers. Steven's father, Alonzo \"Lon\" Howe-long assumed to have died in 1958-is, in fact, still alive. And he is incarcerated in the Colorado State Penitentiary, two hours' drive south of where Steven lives in Denver. What follows is a series of revelations that shake Steven's perceptions of himself, his family, and his marriage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnafraid of risking controversy in the pursuit of insight into the human condition, APPEARANCES is Joanne Greenberg's finest, most challenging, and most compassionate novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Montemayor Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50041627672816,"sku":"9781932727036","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781932727036","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}