{"product_id":"bent-road-9780452297593","title":"Bent Road","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDon't be fooled by the novel's apparent simplicity: What emerges from the surface is a tale of extraordinary emotional power, one of longstanding pain set against the pulsating drumbeat of social change.\u003cbr\u003e-Sarah Weinman, NPR.org \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve's death. But when the 1967 Detroit riots frighten him even more than his Kansas past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Road, and the same small town where Eve mysteriously died. And then a local girl disappears, catapulting the family headlong into a dead man's curve. . . .\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Bent Road, a battered red truck cruises ominously along the prairie; a lonely little girl dresses in her dead aunt's clothes; a boy hefts his father's rifle in search of a target; and a mother realizes she no longer knows how to protect her children. It is\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Even the simplest scenes crackle with suspense.\" — \u003cb\u003eBeth Perry, \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lori Roy masterfully mixes a noir approach with gothic undertones for  an engrossing story about family secrets and tragedies. . . . \u003ci\u003eBent  Road\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the best debuts of 2011.\" — \u003cb\u003eOline Cogdill, McClatchy-Tribune News Service\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51862622044503,"sku":"9780452297593","price":17.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780452297593.jpg?v=1759918307","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/bent-road-9780452297593","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}