{"product_id":"broken-chocolate-9783988322180","title":"Broken Chocolate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cstrong\u003eIn Rachel Miranda's brilliant and beautiful debut novel, family love is the strongest power in the universe. \u003cem\u003eBroken Chocolate\u003c\/em\u003e is both a suspenseful medical drama and a marvel of empathy and insight.\u003c\/strong\u003e\" Brian Morton, author of \u003cem\u003eTasha: A Son's Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the Pushcart Prize and Guggenheim Fellowship\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Sandor family has always been close-birthday breakfasts, Friday-night dinners, and the inventive pastries Liv dreams up as a chef. Sam, a physician in the Yale Brain Injury Department, fills their table with cautionary tales from his patients, reminders of how suddenly life can change. But when sixteen-year-old Zoey-popular, ambitious, and the bright center of the family-falls into a coma after a freak accident, their world fractures.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer twin brother, Zev, must confront life without her protective shadow. Wrestling with social anxiety, he turns to his art to make sense of their abrupt separation, even as he privately navigates a budding romance with Zoey's best friend. Sam faces an agonizing conflict of interest and a crisis of faith, haunted by the childhood losses that led him to medicine. And Liv, shaken from her steady calm, fights to hold her family together with apricot tarts, stubborn hope, and whatever strength she can gather.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eInspired by the patients, doctors, and caregivers the author encountered while managing a brain trauma clinic, \u003cem\u003eBroken Chocolate \u003c\/em\u003emoves us to consider what defines a meaningful life, when to honor old dreams, and when it's time to build new ones.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiranda, Rachel:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Rachel Miranda emigrated to America from Switzerland at the age of eight and now lives in the greater New York area. She is the author of The World at Our Table: A Euro-American Cookbook of Family Favorites, and writes a Substack series called Air Hunger. She is a freelance editor specializing in translated literature and scholarly works, and managing editor of Plamen Press. She earned a Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Literature from Bennington Writing Seminars, and she continues to savor every chance to play with the English language. Broken Chocolate is her debut novel. Visit: rachelmiranda.com.","brand":"Vine Leaves Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52196513939730,"sku":"9783988322180","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_60d9b260-3c1c-409b-9a59-26d39bfaaa3e.jpg?v=1776151277","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/broken-chocolate-9783988322180","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}