{"product_id":"on-agate-hill-9781565125773","title":"On Agate Hill","description":"A dusty box discovered in the wreckage of a once prosperous plantation on Agate Hill in North Carolina contains the remnants of an extraordinary life: diaries, letters, poems, songs, newspaper clippings, court records, marbles, rocks, dolls, and bones. It's through these treasured mementos that we meet Molly Petree. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Raised in those ruins and orphaned by the Civil War, Molly is a refugee who has no interest in self-pity. When a mysterious benefactor appears out her father's past to rescue her, she never looks back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning half a century, \u003ci\u003eOn Agate Hill\u003c\/i\u003e follows Molly's passionate, picaresque journey through love, betrayal, motherhood, a murder trial--and back home to Agate Hill under circumstances she never could have imagined.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLee Smith \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of fourteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eFair and Tender Ladies\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOral History\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSaving Grace\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eGuests on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as four collections of short stories, including \u003ci\u003eMe and My Baby View the Eclipse\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNews of the Spirit\u003c\/i\u003e. Her novel \u003ci\u003eThe Last Girls\u003c\/i\u003e was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller as well as a co-winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. A retired professor of English at North Carolina State University, she has received an Academy Award in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the North Carolina Award for Literature, and the Weatherford Award for Appalachian Literature. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Algonquin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50420203323666,"sku":"9781565125773","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_65b94b5e-3d67-4755-89a3-2f86f13288e3.jpg?v=1729491452","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-agate-hill-9781565125773","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}