{"product_id":"bright-and-tender-dark-9781639737062","title":"Bright and Tender Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Pearson bursts onto the scene with a gripping murder mystery fueled by the craziness of the internet.\" -\u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDays after the dawn of the new millennium, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades later, her freshman-year roommate Joy, mid-divorce and desperate for a new beginning, stumbles on an old letter from Karlie and becomes convinced the man in prison for her murder didn't kill her. It was someone else. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between the doomsaying of 90s evangelical culture and the dark world of internet conspiracies, \u003ci\u003eBright and Tender Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a compulsively readable, twisty, and prismatic debut that brilliantly mines the mythology of a murder and the urge to exploit what we love but can't have. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Smart, assured, and absorbing.\" -\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanna Pearson\u003c\/b\u003e's stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery and Suspense, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. She won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was a finalist for a Shirley Jackson Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Virginia Literary Award. She lives in North Carolina, where she works as a psychiatrist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52127706874130,"sku":"9781639737062","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_65419caf-d309-44a3-b298-91caa4efd9eb.jpg?v=1773743921","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bright-and-tender-dark-9781639737062","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}