{"product_id":"all-things-cease-to-appear-9781101911488","title":"All Things Cease to Appear","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"This literary thriller's complex narrative involves a cursed house, an unsolved murder and impeccable writing.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review -\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe basis for the Netflix film \u003ci\u003eThings Heard and Seen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRecent transplants to the small town of Chosen, New York, the Clares have not received the warmest welcome; once a thriving dairy farm, their home is haunted by the tragedy that left the former owner's three sons orphaned and adrift. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLate one winter afternoon, professor George Clare knocks on his neighbor's door with terrible news: he returned from work to find his wife, Catherine, murdered in their bed. Someone took an ax to her head while their three-year-old daughter, Franny, played alone in her room across the hall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs one dark secret peels away to reveal others--and as the Clare marriage reveals itself to have a sinister darkness that rivals the farm's history--Elizabeth Brundage offers a rich and complex portrait of the scars that can haunt a community for generations and the dark longings inside each and every one of us that drive us to do inexplicable things.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eELIZABETH BRUNDAGE\u003c\/b\u003e graduated from Hampshire College, attended NYU film school, was a screenwriting fellow at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles, and received an MFA as well as a James Michener Award from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught at a variety of colleges and universities, most recently at Skidmore College, where she was visiting writer-in-residence. She lives near Albany in upstate New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e www.elizabethbrundage.com\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50414728642834,"sku":"9781101911488","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_fa93abed-9589-4da4-9707-30d24c1d7ea0.jpg?v=1729380218","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/all-things-cease-to-appear-9781101911488","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}