{"product_id":"the-invisible-years-9781646054152","title":"The Invisible Years","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"It's impossible to get a single\u003cbr\u003eanswer from the past. It's not a key to anything. It's just a place we go to\u003cbr\u003etrick ourselves.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAndrea and Julián haven't seen one\u003cbr\u003eanother in twenty-one years--not since that tragic, fateful night their senior\u003cbr\u003eyear of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A shocking\u003cbr\u003ephone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel\u003cbr\u003ethe truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their\u003cbr\u003eupper-class adolescence in 1990s Bolivia and the scandal that ripped them apart. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA writer unhappy in his career and\u003cbr\u003ehis marriage, Julián has been novelizing the past for his next book, trying to\u003cbr\u003emake meaning out of the events that changed the course of their lives forever. \"I'd\u003cbr\u003ethought that writing about that time would free me, relieve the burden of the\u003cbr\u003einvisible years,\" he writes, \"but often it seems that it's done the reverse.\"\u003cbr\u003eJuxtaposing the naïve invincibility of adolescence with the grasping uncertainties\u003cbr\u003eof adulthood, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Years\u003c\/i\u003e deftly weaves a coming-of-age tale that\u003cbr\u003eleaves the reader hanging on every word, even as they know how the cards fall\u003cbr\u003ein the end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Deep Vellum Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/24\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781646054152\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/08\/2025\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rodrigo Hasb\u0026#195;\u0026#186;n","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52136405958837,"sku":"9781646054152","price":22.06,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_2fb2fdee-59bd-4216-b82e-5faab4c74f3a.jpg?v=1767114400","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-invisible-years-9781646054152","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}