{"product_id":"open-heart-a-poignant-and-gripping-historical-novel-about-the-enduring-power-of-love-9781951479411","title":"Open Heart: A poignant and gripping historical novel about the enduring power of love","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLife is fleeting. Love is a gift.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this coming-of-age novel set in the 1970s, Gene Hull is whitewashing the trunks of Arizona citrus trees when he spots a beautiful girl and falls instantly in love. The girl is vulnerable and shy. Though Gene breaks through her reserve, a date at a wave park turns into a near disaster, and Gene must call on the one person he can always rely on-his doctor father.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough the girl survives and Gene wins her over, what will happen when they leave for college? Is she truly \"the one,\" or \u003cstrong\u003ewill distance drive them apart\u003c\/strong\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a freak accident blows a hole in Gene's freshman year, his grades tank, and he bobbles the ball with the love of his life. She's gone forever. Not only that, but he'll never get into med school on grades alone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHoping to improve his chances of admission, he spends the summer trailing a famous heart surgeon. But can Gene, determined to live up to his father's legacy, turn his \u003cstrong\u003esummer in the \"Heart Room\"\u003c\/strong\u003e-an operating theater of chilling cold, bone saws, and macabre humor-into an experience that would make his father proud? Will he ever love again?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf you like novels where family life is complicated, and \u003cstrong\u003eparents' expectations trickle down into their children's lives\u003c\/strong\u003e, then you'll love Gregory D. Williams' \u003cem\u003eroman   clef\u003c\/em\u003e about \u003cstrong\u003elife, love, and finding one's own true path\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRead \u003cem\u003eOpen Heart\u003c\/em\u003e today for an inside look at a team of \u003cstrong\u003esurgeons healing broken hearts\u003c\/strong\u003e and a young man trying desperately to \u003cstrong\u003eheal his own\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliams, Gregory D.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Gregory D. Williams is the winner of the Arts and Letters Fiction Prize. His fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared in Blue Mesa Review, Elysian Fields, American Fiction, Bosque, and the Journal of the American Medical Association. A graduate of Stanford University and the University of Arizona Medical School, he spent his teenage summers following baseball and whitewashing the trunks of citrus trees.","brand":"Grand Canyon Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50482685378834,"sku":"9781951479411","price":25.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_8aa67b87-1d2c-414d-8ae4-e11c6ae8959d.jpg?v=1730349332","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/open-heart-a-poignant-and-gripping-historical-novel-about-the-enduring-power-of-love-9781951479411","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}