{"product_id":"the-lesson-9781094081298","title":"The Lesson","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that cannot last.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA year after the death of a young boy at the hands of an Ynaa, three families find themselves at the center of the inevitable conflict, witnesses and victims to events that will touch everyone and teach a terrible lesson.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTurnbull, Cadwell:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eCadwell Turnbull\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the debut novel \u003ci\u003eThe Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e. He is a graduate from the North Carolina State University's Creative Writing MFA in Fiction and English MA in Linguistics. Turnbull is also a graduate of Clarion West 2016. His short fiction has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Verge\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLightspeed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNightmare\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAsimov's Science Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e. His \u003ci\u003eNightmare\u003c\/i\u003e story \"Loneliness Is in Your Blood\" was selected for the Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2018. His \u003ci\u003eLightspeed \u003c\/i\u003estory \"Jump\" was selected for\u003ci\u003e The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy 2019 \u003c\/i\u003eand was featured on \u003ci\u003eLeVar Burton Reads.\u003c\/i\u003e For his work on \u003ci\u003eThe Lesson\u003c\/i\u003e, Turnbull has been long-listed for the 2020 VCU Cabell's First Novelist Award and nominated for the 2020 AAMBC Sci-fi Fantasy Author of the Year. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50630089081106,"sku":"9781094081298","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35fca928-ab4f-4421-befc-dadb9dd121b8.jpg?v=1732742955","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-lesson-9781094081298","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}