{"product_id":"an-american-tune-9780253022875","title":"An American Tune","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhile reluctantly accompanying her husband and daughter to freshman orientation at Indiana University, Nora Quillen hears someone call her name, a name she has not heard in more than 25 years. Not even her husband knows that back in the '60s she was Jane Barth, a student deeply involved in the antiwar movement. \u003ci\u003eAn American Tune\u003c\/i\u003e moves back and forth in time, telling the story of Jane, a girl from a working-class family who fled town after she was complicit in a deadly bombing, and Nora, the woman she became, a wife and mother living a quiet life in northern Michigan. An achingly poignant account of a family crushed under the weight of suppressed truths, now available as a Break Away Book Club Edition, \u003ci\u003eAn American Tune\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates the irrevocability of our choices and how those choices come to compose the tune of our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBarbara Shoup is author of eight novels and co-author of two books about the creative process. Her short fiction, poetry, essays, and interviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Writer\u003c\/i\u003e and in the\u003ci\u003e New York Times \u003c\/i\u003etravel section, and her young adult novels, \u003ci\u003eWish You Were Here\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStranded in Harmony\u003c\/i\u003e, were selected as American Library Association Best Books for Young Adults. Shoup is executive director of the Indiana Writers Center and in 2012 was the regional winner of the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Break Away Book Club Edition","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50923933663506,"sku":"9780253022875","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f235d725-0c7d-4820-8d2f-6deb666ee147.jpg?v=1738965584","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/an-american-tune-9780253022875","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}