{"product_id":"the-home-place-9780062323453","title":"The Home Place","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarrie La Seur makes her remarkable debut with \u003cem\u003eThe Home Place\u003c\/em\u003e, a mesmerizing, emotionally evocative, and atmospheric literary novel in the vein of \u003cem\u003eThe House Girl\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eA Land More Kind Than Home\u003c\/em\u003e, in which a successful lawyer is pulled back into her troubled family's life in rural Montana in the wake of her sister's death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe only Terrebonne who made it out, Alma thought she was done with Montana, with its bleak winters and stifling ways. But an unexpected call from the local police takes the successful lawyer back to her provincial hometown and pulls her into the family trouble she thought she'd left far behind: Her lying, party-loving sister, Vicky, is dead. Alma is told that a very drunk Vicky had wandered away from a party and died of exposure after a night in the brutal cold. But when Alma returns home to bury Vicky and see to her orphaned niece, she discovers that the death may not have been an accident.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Home Place\u003c\/em\u003e is a story of secrets that will not lie still, human bonds that will not break, and crippling memories that will not be silenced. It is a story of rural towns and runaways, of tensions corporate and racial, of childhood trauma and adolescent betrayal, and of the guilt that even forgiveness cannot ease. Most of all, this is a story of the place we carry in us always: home.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e William Morrow \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062323453\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Carrie La Seur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53195135549621,"sku":"9780062323453","price":12.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9780062323453.jpg?v=1788273037","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-home-place-9780062323453","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}