{"product_id":"bug-hollow-9780593834879","title":"Bug Hollow","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eSummer Reading Pick \u003ci\u003e- \u003c\/i\u003eOne of 50 books \u003ci\u003eTODAY \u003c\/i\u003ecan't wait to read in 2025 - \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily \u003c\/i\u003eBest Summer Reads of 2025 - \u003ci\u003eBoston Globe \u003c\/i\u003eBest of Summer 2025\u003ci\u003e - \u003c\/i\u003eOne of LitHub's Novels to Read This Summer - \u003ci\u003eKirkus \u003c\/i\u003e20 Best Books to Read in June \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Deeply satisfying...Feels like watching a master painter at work.\" --Ann Napolitano, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHello Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA decades-spanning family saga featuring the messy but loving Samuelson clan trying to make sense of the world after the loss of their son Ellis\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Sally Samuelson was eight years old, her golden boy brother Ellis went missing the summer he graduated high school. Ellis finally turned up at the bucolic Bug Hollow, a last gasp of the beautiful Northern California counterculture in the seventies. He had found joy in the communal life there, but died in a freak accident weeks later. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom that point, the world of the Samuelsons never spins on the same axis, especially after Julia, Ellis's girlfriend from Bug Hollow, shows up pregnant on their doorstep. Each Samuelson has sought their own solace: Sybil Samuelson pours herself into teaching and numbing her pain after the loss of her beloved son; her husband, Phil, had found respite in a love that developed while he was working as an engineer in Saudi Arabia; Katie, the high achieving middle Samuelson, comes home to try and make peace with her mother after a cancer diagnosis. And Sally has become the de facto caretaker to Eva, the child Ellis never knew. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichelle Huneven is \"known for five enthralling novels, which chronicle the lives of middle-class Americans in her lushly conjured native California, as her characters struggle with addiction, excruciating romances, and resounding losses as they continue to seek meaning and a way to be good\" (American Academy of Arts and Letters). She captures the Samuelson clan with glorious precision and the deepest empathy as they fracture and rebuild again and again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichelle Huneven \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eRound Rock\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJamesland\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBlame\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOff Course, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSearch\u003c\/i\u003e. Her books have been New York Times Notable Books and finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a James Beard Award, and a Literature Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She received her master's in fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and teaches creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359396430098,"sku":"9780593834879","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_89e7d8c6-3d95-4994-b1ee-fc3f26d53d3c.jpg?v=1749590945","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/bug-hollow-9780593834879","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}