{"product_id":"tenderness-6694","title":"Tenderness","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the beloved author of \u003ci\u003eThe Divorcées\u003c\/i\u003e comes a novel set in the 1970s during an island wedding, where the bride has recently left a sinister cult that might still be trailing her.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Excellent.... [Beaird] achieves a low, ominous hum throughout its tale of an island wedding off the Virginia coast.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--Chicago Tribune \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn a remote island off the coast of Virginia, family and friends gather to celebrate the wedding of Shay O'Connor and Andrew Pruitt. From the moment the guests arrive, all they can whisper about is the bride, who recently left the headline-making cult Synanon. Why would someone like Shay, an Ivy League graduate with a wealthy, doting fiancée, join Synanon? And has she really escaped their grasp?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTold from the interwoven perspectives of Shay's brother William, her longtime friend Joel, and Shay herself, \u003ci\u003eTenderness\u003c\/i\u003e is a slow-burn mystery that excavates dark family histories and romantic regrets. As the wedding day approaches, Joel and William pull at the loose threads of Shay's story, and it becomes clear there is an even greater threat on the island than the secrets each character is keeping from one another.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSet in the tinderbox of the 1970s, \u003ci\u003eTenderness\u003c\/i\u003e is a lit match, bringing hidden truths to light and asking if we can ever see ourselves or the people we love for who they truly are.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRowan Beaird's\u003c\/b\u003e fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Southern Review, Ploughshares, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGulf \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCoast\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in Chicago with her husband and daughter. \u003ci\u003eThe Divorcées\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowan Beaird","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52274251235613,"sku":"9781250386694","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/9781250386694.jpg?v=1784746648","url":"https:\/\/www.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/tenderness-6694","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}