{"product_id":"the-mystery-of-grace-9780765317575","title":"The Mystery of Grace","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the Day of the Dead, the Solona Music Hall is jumping. That's where Altagracia Quintero meets John Burns, just two weeks too late. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAltagracia - her friends call her Grace - has a tattoo of Nuestra Señora de Altagracia on her shoulder, she's got a Ford Motor Company tattoo running down her leg, and she has grease worked so deep into her hands that it'll never wash out. Grace works at Sanchez Motorworks, customizing hot rods. Finding the line in a classic car is her calling. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNow Grace has to find the line in her own life. A few blocks around the Alverson Arms is all her world -- from the little grocery store where she buys beans, tamales, and cigarettes (\"cigarettes can kill you,\" they tell her, but she smokes them anyway) to the record shop, to the library where Henry, a black man confined to a wheelchair, researches the mystery of life in death - but she's got unfinished business keeping her close to home. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGrace loves John, and John loves her, and that would be wonderful, except that John, like Grace, has unfinished business - he's haunted by the childhood death of his younger brother. He's never stopped feeling responsible. Like Grace in her way, John is an artist, and before their relationship can find its resolution, the two of them will have to teach each other about life and love, about hot rods and Elvis Presley, and about why it's necessary to let some things go.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles de Lint\u003c\/b\u003e and his wife, the artist MaryAnn Harris, live in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. His evocative novels, including \u003ci\u003eMoonheart, Forests of the Heart, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Onion Girl, \u003c\/i\u003ehave earned him a devoted following and critical acclaim as a master of contemporary magical fiction in the manner of storytellers like John Crowley, Jonathan Carroll, Alice Hoffman, Ray Bradbury, and Isabel Allende.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492003385618,"sku":"9780765317575","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c9e7ead1-551a-4ddb-a066-1e9806bbdfbd.jpg?v=1730565433","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-mystery-of-grace-9780765317575","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}