{"product_id":"all-the-world-beside-9780525537342","title":"All the World Beside","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A heart-wrenching story of love, family, and spirituality.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBoy Erased\u003c\/i\u003e, an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the love story between two men in Puritan New England. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCana, Massachusetts: a utopian vision of 18th-century Puritan New England. To the outside world, Reverend Nathaniel Whitfield and his family stand as godly pillars of their small-town community, drawing Christians from across the New World into their fold. One such Christian, physician Arthur Lyman, discovers in the minister's words a love so captivating it transcends language. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs the bond between these two men grows more and more passionate, their families must contend with a tangled web of secrets, lies, and judgments which threaten to destroy them in this world and the next. And when the religious ecstasies of the Great Awakening begin to take hold, igniting a new era of zealotry, Nathaniel and Arthur search for a path out of an impossible situation, imagining a future for themselves which has no name. Their wives and children must do the same, looking beyond the known world for a new kind of wilderness, both physical and spiritual. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet during the turbulent historical upheavals which shaped America's destiny and following in the tradition of Nathaniel Hawthorne's \u003ci\u003eThe Scarlet Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAll the World Beside \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the very human lives just beneath the surface of dogmatic belief. Bestselling author Garrard Conley has created a page-turning, vividly imagined historical tale that is both a love story and a crucible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGarrard Conley\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of the memoir \u003ci\u003eBoy Erased\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as the creator and co-producer of the podcast \u003ci\u003eUnErased: The History of Conversion Therapy in America\u003c\/i\u003e. His work has been published by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOxford American\u003c\/i\u003e, Time, and \u003ci\u003eVirginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. Conley is a graduate of Brooklyn College's MFA program, where he was a Truman Capote Fellow specializing in fiction. He is an assistant professor of creative writing at Kennesaw State University.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181644480786,"sku":"9780525537342","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9a95b165-f31d-4588-89c0-14bde1040372.jpg?v=1744399370","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-the-world-beside-9780525537342","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}