{"product_id":"touched-by-the-sun-my-friendship-with-jackie-9781250758064","title":"Touched by the Sun: My Friendship with Jackie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller Named one of the ten best books of 2019 by \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCarly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair--Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated, meticulous, unknowable women in American history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNonetheless, over the next decade their lives merged in inextricable and complex ways, and they forged a connection deeper than either could ever have foreseen. The time they spent together--lingering lunches and creative collaborations, nights out on the town and movie dates--brought a welcome lightness and comfort to their days, but their conversations often veered into more profound territory as they helped each other navigate the shifting waters of life lived, publicly, in the wake of great love and great loss. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn intimate, vulnerable, and insightful portrait of the bond that grew between two iconic and starkly different American women, Carly Simon's \u003ci\u003eTouched by the Sun \u003c\/i\u003eis a chronicle, in loving detail, of the late friendship she and Jackie shared. It is a meditation on the ways someone can unexpectedly enter our lives and change its course, as well as a celebration of kinship in all its many forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eTouched by the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e, Simon reveals an easy-going, playful side of [Jackie] that most people never saw -- sneaking a smoke during intermission at the opera, frolicking in the ocean off the Vineyard . . . The woman who would later edit several of Simon's children's books was 'just fun to be around.'\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--Juliet Pennington, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarly Simon \u003c\/b\u003eis a songwriter and singer of songs. Her children are Ben Taylor and Sally Taylor Bragonier. She has one grandchild: Bodhi Taylor Bragonier. She lives on Martha's Vineyard and is the author of \u003ci\u003eBoys in the Trees\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50651193344274,"sku":"9781250758064","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e75f4e97-1918-4d34-b8df-e79b7a803147.jpg?v=1733297678","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/touched-by-the-sun-my-friendship-with-jackie-9781250758064","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}