{"product_id":"our-lady-of-the-forest-9780375726576","title":"Our Lady of the Forest","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the award-winning, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eSnow Falling on Cedars \u003c\/i\u003ecomes an emotionally charged, provocative novel about what happens when a fifteen-year-old pill-popping runaway receives a visitation from the Virgin Mary. - \"Surely one of this year's best novels.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ann Holmes is a fragile teenaged runaway who receives a visitation from the Virgin Mary one morning while picking mushrooms in the woods of North Fork, Washington. In the ensuing days the miracle recurs, and the declining logging town becomes the site of a pilgrimage of the faithful and desperate. As these people flock to Ann--and as Ann herself is drawn more deeply into what is either holiness or madness--\u003ci\u003eOur Lady of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e--seamlessly splices the miraculous and the mundane.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavid Guterson is the author of a collection of short stories, \u003cb\u003eThe Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind; Family Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense; Snow Falling on Cedars\u003c\/b\u003e, which won the 1995 PEN\/Faulkner Award, the Pacific Northwest Bookseller Association Award, and was an international bestseller; and the national bestseller \u003cb\u003eEast of the Mountains\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50917617500434,"sku":"9780375726576","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9ac5725d-dc2c-4976-9571-31bfd6d8cc0e.jpg?v=1738868584","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/our-lady-of-the-forest-9780375726576","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}