{"product_id":"summer-solstice-an-essay-9781574232387","title":"Summer Solstice: An Essay","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSummer is fireflies and sparklers. Fat red tomatoes sliced thin and salted. Lemonade and long dreamy days. The treasures of the season are gone much too soon -- but they're captured here, in loving sensuous prose that's both personal and universal, for you to find any time of year.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eExperience the most evocative tribute to the meaning of the season, a season whose magical feeling stays with us even in winter. Where does that feeling come from? What is summer made of? The smell of cut grass behind the gasoline of a lawnmower. A crown you've made of flowers. Blackberry bush prickers. First hot dog off the grill. Stargazing and sleeping with the windows open. This essay brims with a searching honesty and insight about what this season has meant in our pasts and what it might mean in our lives ahead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eRelease yourself into the sky and feel, \u003c\/i\u003e Nina MacLaughlin writes, \u003ci\u003efor a moment: there's time.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIf summer is the season of your life, if the months between Memorial Day and Labor Day hold your favorite memories, you'll love \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSummer Solstice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaclaughlin, Nina:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNina MacLaughlin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWake Siren: Ovid Resung\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e and the acclaimed memoir \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHammer Head\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. Formerly an editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e, she worked for nine years as a carpenter, and is now a books columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Sparrow Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50598736986386,"sku":"9781574232387","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_027b4ca9-fefb-4426-8681-28da16d8a14b.jpg?v=1732190158","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/summer-solstice-an-essay-9781574232387","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}