{"product_id":"the-winter-in-anna-9780393608502","title":"The Winter in Anna","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe story of an unlikely and transformative connection forged between a young journalist and a woman whose past holds a terrible secret.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A deceptively quiet novel that gradually gathers power around the themes of love, loss, memory, and the paramount importance of doing good work well. Gorgeous and affirming.\" -- Mark Costello, National Book Award-nominated author of Big If\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Winter in Anna\u003c\/em\u003e is filled with the secret knowledge I want out of a novel, particularly concerning the important subjects in life: love, pain, North Dakota, newspapers, small towns, family, loyalty, friendship, and regret. I could tell this book was good when reading it felt like a secret I was keeping from my family and from the world.\" -- Ander Monson, author of Letter to a Future Lover\u003cbr\u003e\"I couldn’t put down this wise tale—by turns bone-chilling, rollicking, bittersweet—of a young man’s stint at the sort of small-town newspaper that, sadly, has all but vanished. \u003cem\u003eThe Winter in Anna\u003c\/em\u003e arrives via the journalist’s older self—husband, father—and is enriched and enlarged by his big-hearted musings on what he failed to understand in his youth and how that failure haunts him still.\" -- Elizabeth Evans, author of As Good As Dead\u003cbr\u003e\"Reed Karaim tells a ‘tribal and ancient story’ about how our early choices shape us… With exotic details of a state filled with fire and ice, \u003cem\u003eThe Winter in Anna\u003c\/em\u003e shows who we often find impossible to forgive: our younger selves.\" -- Maureen Gibbon, author of Paris Red\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Winter in Anna\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply affecting elegy. As I read, I slowly realized that Anna herself—so full of what Chekhov called ‘haunting pathos’—would be a heart-wrenching character, and she is. Karaim works a beautifully paced magic. I somehow heard, page by page, Bach’s Unaccompanied Cello suites drifting in through the North Dakota snow.\" -- Howard Norman, author of My Darling Detective\u003cbr\u003e\"An atmospheric and beautifully written capsule of loss, regret, and moments of salvation.\" -- Vicki Ann Duraine - Arizona Daily Star\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] literary heart stopper.\" -- Chris Stuckenschneider - The Missourian\u003cbr\u003e\"Memorable… \u003cem\u003eThe Winter in Anna\u003c\/em\u003e is both thoughtful and introspective, in the tradition of Pat Conroy and Ward Just.\" -- Ian Schwartz - BookPage\u003cbr\u003e\"Captivating... [W]onderfully crafted... a beautiful, touching novel.\" -- Publishers Weekly\u003cbr\u003e\"A melancholy, earnest study of friendship.\" -- Kirkus","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525162344791,"sku":"9780393608502","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393608502.jpg?v=1731859467","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-winter-in-anna-9780393608502","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}