{"product_id":"this-is-not-a-love-letter","title":"This is Not a Love Letter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A long  beautiful  heart-breaking love letter to potential and possibilities and hope  to the pain we survive in youth and carry with us into adulthood.\"--NPR Book Reviews  One week. Thats all Jessie said. A one-week break to get some perspective before graduation  before she and her boyfriend  Chris  would have to make all the big  scary decisions about their future -- decisions they had been fighting about for weeks.  Then  Chris vanishes. The police think hes run away  but Jessie doesnt believe it. Chris is popular and good-looking  about to head off to college on a full-ride baseball scholarship. And he disappeared while going for a run along the river -- the same place where some boys from the rival high school beat him up just three weeks ago. Chris is one of the only black kids in a depressed paper mill town  and Jessie is terrified of what might have happened.  As the police are spurred to reluctant action  Jessie and others speak up about the harassment Chris experienced and the danger he could be in. But there are people in Jessies town who are infuriated by the suggestion that a boy like Chris would be a target of violence. They smear Chriss character and Jessie begins receiving frightening threats.  Every Friday since they started dating  Chris has written Jessie a love letter. Now Jessie is writing Chris a letter of her own to tell him everything thats happening while hes gone. As Jessie searches for answers  she must face her fears  her guilt  and a past more complicated than she would like to admit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44949502623797,"sku":"ByrdShop_1484799879","price":61.22,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781484799871.jpg?v=1770078099","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/this-is-not-a-love-letter","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}