{"product_id":"bittersweet-paperback-9","title":"Bittersweet - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMiranda Beverly-Whittemore\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSuspenseful and cinematic, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller \u003ci\u003eBittersweet\u003c\/i\u003e exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider's hunger to belong.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful, wild, blue-blooded Genevra Winslow. Ev invites Mabel to spend the summer at Bittersweet, her cottage on the Vermont estate where her family has been holding court for more than a century. Mabel falls in love with midnight skinny-dipping, the wet dog smell that lingers near the yachts, and the moneyed laughter that carries across the still lake while fireworks burst overhead. Before she knows it, she has everything she's ever wanted: friendship, a boyfriend, access to wealth, and, most of all, for the first time in her life, the sense that she belongs. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut as Mabel becomes an insider, a terrible discovery leads to shocking violence and reveals what the Winslows may have done to keep their power intact--and what they might do to anyone who threatens them. Mabel must choose: either expose the ugliness surrounding her and face expulsion from paradise, or keep the family's dark secrets and make Ev's world her own.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMIRANDA BEVERLY-WHITTEMORE\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three other novels: \u003ci\u003eJune; Set Me Free\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, given annually for the best book of fiction by an American woman; and \u003ci\u003eThe Effects of Light\u003c\/i\u003e. A recipient of the \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse Prize\u003c\/i\u003e in Fiction, she lives and writes in Brooklyn.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 416\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 28, 2015\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47255606722809,"sku":"9780804138581","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/DviduLPNGo9780804138581.webp?v=1768725500","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bittersweet-paperback-9","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}