{"product_id":"all-the-way-around-the-sun-9780063086074","title":"All the Way Around the Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThis Place Is Still Beautiful \u003c\/em\u003ecomes an evocative, achingly romantic road-trip story about grief, diasporic identities, and the deep-buried secrets that haunt us, perfect for fans of \u003cem\u003ePast Lives\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Farewell\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStella Chen's life ground to a halt when her brother unexpectedly passed away a year ago. Raised together by their grandmother for years in the Chinese countryside before rejoining their parents in the United States, his absence destroys the connective tissue in her family. With another jarring move her senior year, from rural Illinois to unfamiliar surroundings in San Diego, she is left alone and adrift in her family's suffocating silence and the void of unanswered questions her brother left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo when Stella's parents force her to join her estranged childhood friend Alan Zhao for a college tour all over California, Stella dreads it. Alan is a reminder of everything Stella wishes she could be--popular, gregarious, unburdened--and a reminder of how lost she is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs this road trip takes Stella and Alan down beautiful coastlines and through fraught family dynamics, Stella can't help but feel the spark of why she and Alan were once so close. Before long, they find themselves pulled into each other's orbits, forcing unspoken feelings and long-hidden truths into the light.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTian, XIXI:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eXiXi Tian\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in China and immigrated to the United States when she was a year old. She grew up in central Illinois, graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a degree in history, and then attended Harvard Law School. She is a writer, lawyer, avid reader, and lifelong Midwesterner no matter where she lives. Her debut novel, \u003cem\u003eThis Place Is Still Beautiful\u003c\/em\u003e, was an Indies Introduce and Indie Next Pick and received five starred reviews. You can visit her online at xixiwrites.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quill Tree Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51624074445074,"sku":"9780063086074","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7e8ef4d7-37e4-4f31-899e-fb5896c84d71.jpg?v=1758653364","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-the-way-around-the-sun-9780063086074","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}