{"product_id":"jessica-harmon-has-stepped-away-9781645386209","title":"Jessica Harmon Has Stepped Away","description":"\u003cp\u003eJessica Harmon has spent her life in an emotional tug-of-war-yearning for her mother's attention while bracing for the rejection that always followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt thirty, Jessica's love life is a wreck, her confidence is shot, and she's adrift in New York City, stuck editing other people's novels at a vanity press while too paralyzed to write her own. She blames her failure to launch on the woman who raised her: Cynthia Harmon, a legendary poet and scholar, who dazzles her students and readers alike...but leaves her only child cold.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Cynthia wins yet another major literary award and asks her daughter to assist her on the book tour, Jessica decides to give their relationship one last chance. When a crisis upends Cynthia's triumphant moment, the power dynamic begins to shift between the two women, and cracks start to show in the story Jessica has always been told-about her mother, her family, and herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJessica Harmon Has Stepped Away\u003c\/em\u003e is a sharp, emotionally layered novel about mothers and daughters, long-held secrets, and understanding where we come from so we can choose who we become.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGentin, Reyna Marder:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Reyna Marder Gentin grew up on Long Island and attended Yale College and Yale Law School. A former criminal defense attorney, she is the author of two prior legal romances, Unreasonable Doubts and Both Are True, as well as a middle grade novel, My Name Is Layla. Reyna's personal essays and short stories have been published widely in print and online, and she is currently working on a collection of linked short stories entitled Open Twenty-Four Hours. Reyna lives with her family in Westchester County, New York. Please find out more by visiting reynamardergentin.com.","brand":"Ten16 Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51721018114322,"sku":"9781645386209","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0eface69-7b07-42e4-8fc3-85af0c06642a.jpg?v=1762946748","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/jessica-harmon-has-stepped-away-9781645386209","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}