{"product_id":"straying-a-novel-9781501172465","title":"Straying: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom an extravagantly gifted writer who deserves to be widely read (Rachel Cusk  The Telegraph)  this intimate  quietly stunning novel tells the story of a young American expat who settles in Ireland in the late 1980s  marries  and lives through the consequences of an affair.  Alice  a young American  arrives in the West of Ireland with no plans and no strong attachmentsexcept to her beloved mother  who raised her on her own. Alice falls in love with an Irishman  marries him  and settles down in a place whose customs she struggles to understand. In the course of a single hot summer  she embarks on an affair that breaks her marriage and sets her life on a new course.  Years later  after working in war zones around the world  and in the immediate aftermath of her mothers death  Alice finds herself back in Ireland and contemplating the forces that led her to put down roots and then tear them up again. What drew her to her husband  and what pulled her away? Was her husband strangely complicit in the affair? Was she always under surveillance by friends and neighbors who knew more than they let on?  Molly McCloskey is one of Irelands finest writers (Colum McCann) and Straying is at once a gripping account of passion and ambivalence and an exquisite rumination on the things that matter most: the definition of love  the value of family  and the meaning of home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67904720601141,"sku":"ByrdShop_1501172468","price":27.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781501172465.jpg?v=1793850932","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/straying-a-novel-9781501172465","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}