{"product_id":"a-trick-of-nature-a-novel-0393347524","title":"A Trick of Nature: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0393347524\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Matson, Suzanne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A compelling, unpredictable narrative that moves beyond its calm suburban setting into darker social and psychological territory[Matson] is a writer of uncommon wisdom and emotional depth.\" -Tom Perrotta, author of The Leftovers and Mrs. FletcherGreg Goodman is a very ordinary guy-a not-very-ambitious school teacher and football coach who takes his attractive wife, Patty, their twin adolescent daughters, and the comfortable ease of their suburban routine for granted. Until lightening strikes-both literally and figuratively-as Greg runs a pattern with his junior varsity team during a muggy August practice and fifteen-year-old Timothy Phelps is directly struck. This crisis threatens to unravel all the strands anchoring Greg to his normal habits of being. When Timothy's mother, a stripper and addict who abandoned Timothy as a child, enters the mix, Greg discovers his own complicated and misguided longings.As in her debut novel, Suzanne Matson employs \"crisp, clean writing[and] compassionately drawn characters\" (New York Times Book Review) to create a gripping story about the nature of love, trust, family, and marriage. Set in a seemingly safe world of split-levels and carefully tended lawns, A Trick of Nature powerfully captures the characters' emerging self-awareness as they are forced to test the assumptions they hold about themselves and the connections that bind them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51855768060192,"sku":"NEW0393347524","price":29.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/61tGZ9fnfZL.jpg?v=1781541087","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/a-trick-of-nature-a-novel-0393347524","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}