{"product_id":"9781940333083","title":"Bonds of Love \u0026 Blood","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Poignant, honest, and compelling... Highly recommended.\"--PACIFIC BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwelve tales of love and travel, arrivals and departures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt home and abroad, solitary travelers embark on journeys that take them where they never expected to go.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman in Istanbul hooks up with a Kurdish rug dealer and learns a lesson about family life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA visitor to California—the elderly Tanaka—must shape up his daughter before she alienates the bridegroom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith a marriage at risk, Leslie and her Indian mother-in-law nearly come to blows over a shared kitchen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalter, self-conscious about his disfiguring birthmark, finds himself marooned in a Thai beach resort, but for the first time in his life, he is not alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe twelve prize-winning stories in \u003cstrong\u003eBONDS OF LOVE \u0026amp; BLOOD\u003c\/strong\u003e remind us of our universal and contradictory longing for solitude and for connection.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Marylee MacDonald","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47040448626928,"sku":"9781940333083","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781940333083_p0.jpg?v=1763666707","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781940333083","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}