{"product_id":"in-the-river-sweet-9780385721325","title":"In the River Sweet","description":"National Book Award finalist Patricia Henley captivates us with this engrossing novel of a woman whose long-held secret will transform her life and her marriage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom all appearances, Ruth Anne Bond is enviably lucky. Her husband, Johnny, still treats her like a young lover. Her grown daughter is a staunch friend. Her steady work and devotion to the church have quietly made her a pillar of the community. Then one long Indiana summer brings some unexpected communiqu s--including one she has both craved and feared for thirty years. As long-hidden truths threaten to emerge, for the first time in her marriage Ruth Anne is faced with memories she and Johnny never discuss: of a year spent in Saigon in 1968--and a past she has yet to acknowledge. Probing questions of family and faith, Patricia Henley offers us a tender, far-sighted novel about seeking answers and achieving grace.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatricia Henley's first novel, \u003ci\u003eHummingbird House, \u003c\/i\u003e was a finalist for the 1999 National Book Award and \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e Best Fiction Book Award. Henley has also written two books of poetry, \u003ci\u003eLearning to Die\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBack Roads, \u003c\/i\u003e and four story collections: \u003ci\u003eFriday Night at Silver Star, \u003c\/i\u003e which won the 1985 Montana Arts Council First Book Award; \u003ci\u003eThe Secret of Cartwheels\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eWorship of the Common Heart: New and Selected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e Other Heartbreaks.\u003c\/i\u003e Her stories have been published in such magazines as \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, The Missouri Review, The Boston Globe Sunday Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNorthwest Review, \u003c\/i\u003e and anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pushcart Prize \u003c\/i\u003eanthology\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e For 27 years she taught in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Purdue University. She lives in Frostburg, Maryland.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50900085768466,"sku":"9780385721325","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9487f990-d90a-4003-8fba-1b14685ef109.jpg?v=1738375045","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-river-sweet-9780385721325","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}