{"product_id":"louisa-meets-bear-stories-9781250094704","title":"Louisa Meets Bear: Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Louisa and Bear meet at Princeton in 1975, sparks fly. Louisa is the sexually adventurous daughter of a geneticist, Bear the volatile son of a plumber. They dive headfirst into a passionate affair that will alter the course of their lives, changing how they define themselves in the years and relationships that follow. Lisa Gornick's \u003ci\u003eLouisa Meets Bear \u003c\/i\u003eis a gripping novel in interconnected stories from an author whose work \"starts off like a brush fire and then engulfs and burns with fury\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReading \u003ci\u003eLouisa Meets Bear \u003c\/i\u003eis like assembling a jigsaw puzzle, as we uncover the subtle and startling connections between new characters and the star-crossed lovers. We meet a daughter who stabs her mother when she learns the truth about her father, a wife who sees herself clearly after finding a man dead on her office floor, a mother who discovers a girl in her teenage son's bed. Each character is striking, each rendered with Gornick's trademark sympathy and psychological acuity. We follow them over the course of a half century, from San Francisco to New York City and from Guatemala to Venice, through pregnancies, tragedies, and revelations, until we return to Louisa and Bear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith flawed and deeply human characters, and piercing insight into the lives of women, \u003ci\u003eLouisa Meets Bear \u003c\/i\u003egrapples with whether we can--or can't--choose how and whom we love.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250094704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Lisa Gornick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38211082322101,"sku":"9781250094704","price":20.39,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_73b4bd8a-3a7c-496d-b7be-d137fd29805a.jpg?v=1610428429","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/louisa-meets-bear-stories-9781250094704","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}