{"product_id":"the-breakdown-lane-9780061374524","title":"The Breakdown Lane","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Deep End of the Ocean and Twelve Times Blessed comes a novel of the breakdown of a family and of healing after a loss\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Giving advice is what Julianne Ambrose Gillis does for a living--every Sunday she doles it out to clueless people she doesn't know, in a column in her local Wisconsin paper. But when it comes to her personal life, Julie seems to have no insight whatsoever. She has worked hard to keep her marriage fresh and to be a good mother, so it's a mystery when Leo, her husband of twenty years, decides to defect from their life together and their three children: Gabe, Caroline and Aury. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e In his absence, Julie is diagnosed with a serious illness, which drives her children to undertake a dangerous journey to find Leo--before it's too late. But what they discover about their father is even more devastating than their mother's deteriorating health. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e As the known world sinks precariously from view and leaves them all adrift, the Gillis clan must navigate their way through the trenches of love, guilt and betrayal, back to solid ground and a new definition of family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMitchard, Jacquelyn:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller Jacquelyn Mitchard's novels include \u003cem\u003eThe Deep End of the Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eTwelve Times Blessed\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Breakdown Lane\u003c\/em\u003e. She is also the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Rest of Us: Dispatches from the Mother Ship\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of her newspaper columns. She lives with her husband and six children in Madison, Wisconsin. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50668897501458,"sku":"9780061374524","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_abf1e3ca-d69e-4e6b-addf-6fe31484da40.jpg?v=1733751820","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-breakdown-lane-9780061374524","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}