{"title":"Laura Brodie","description":"Laura Brodie is a Harvard graduate and visiting professor of English at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. Her first book, Breaking Out: VMI and the Coming of Women, was published by Pantheon to critical acclaim. Her memoir, One Good Year: Love in a Time of Homeschooling, is forthcoming from Harper. The Widow's Season, her first novel, won the 2005 Faulkner Society\/Evans Harrington Grant for Best Novel-in-Progress. Laura lives in Lexington, Virginia.","products":[{"product_id":"all-the-truth-paperback","title":"All the Truth - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOne night can alter a life forever... \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmma Greene enjoys living in rural solitude with her husband and five-year-old daughter, Maggie, far away from her college students in Jackson, Virginia. But late one night, with her husband away and her daughter upstairs in bed, some of Emma's students trespass on her property. The ensuing confrontation changes Emma and Maggie's life forever. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNine years later, still plagued by nightmares from that evening, Maggie is living with her father in the same small town, and entering her first year of high school. She develops problems in class when her math teacher, a strange and lonely woman, begins to exhibit an odd interest in her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn order to let go of the past, Maggie begins to piece together all the truth of what happened that night--and discovers a story of anger, guilt, and redemption.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101838905567,"sku":"9780425247631","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/LjTC8SrBlz9780425247631.webp?v=1781075738"},{"product_id":"the-widows-season-paperback","title":"The Widow's Season - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA mesmerizing debut novel about love, grief, and the ghosts who show up where we least expect them.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Sarah McConnell's husband had been dead for three months when she saw him in the grocery store. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e What does a woman do when she's thirty-nine, childless, and completely alone for the first time in her life? Does it mean she's crazy to think she sees her late husband beside a display of pumpkins? Or is it just what people do, a natural response to grief that will fade in time? That's what Sarah McConnell's friends told her, that it was natural, would last a season, and then fade away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e But what if there was another answer? What if he was really there? They never found the body, after all. What if he is still here somehow, and about to walk back into her life?","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102871851231,"sku":"9780425227657","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/KDUkLSLahS9780425227657.webp?v=1781087514"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/laura-brodie.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}