{"product_id":"the-tie-that-binds-9780375724381","title":"The Tie That Binds","description":"From the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eEventide\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Tie That Binds\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerfully eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eColorado, January 1977. Eighty-year-old Edith Goodnough lies in a hospital bed, IV taped to the back of her hand, police officer at her door. She is charged with murder. The clues: a sack of chicken feed slit with a knife, a milky-eyed dog tied outdoors one cold afternoon. The motives: the brutal business of farming and a family code of ethics as unforgiving as the winter prairie itself. Here, Kent Haruf delivers the sweeping tale of a woman of the American High Plains, as told by her neighbor, Sanders Roscoe. As Roscoe shares what he knows, Edith's tragedies unfold: a childhood of pre-dawn chores, a mother's death, a violence that leaves a father dependent on his children, forever enraged. Here is the story of a woman who sacrifices her happiness in the name of family--and then, in one gesture, reclaims her freedom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKent Haruf is the author of five previous novels (and, with the photographer Peter Brown, \u003ci\u003eWest of Last Chance\u003c\/i\u003e). His honors include a Whiting Foundation Writers' Award, the Mountains \u0026amp; Plains Booksellers Award, the Wallace Stegner Award, and a special citation from the PEN\/Hemingway Foundation; he was also a finalist for the National Book Award, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and the New Yorker Book Award. He died in November 2014, at the age of seventy-one.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523557953810,"sku":"9780375724381","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_95144c83-cbcc-45fb-a0c9-6588d1e7576e.jpg?v=1731152141","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-tie-that-binds-9780375724381","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}