{"product_id":"bright-and-tender-dark-paperback","title":"Bright and Tender Dark - 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\u003eJoanna Pearson\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Pearson bursts onto the scene with a gripping murder mystery fueled by the craziness of the internet.\" -\u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDays after the dawn of the new millennium, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades later, her freshman-year roommate Joy, mid-divorce and desperate for a new beginning, stumbles on an old letter from Karlie and becomes convinced the man in prison for her murder didn't kill her. It was someone else. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between the doomsaying of 90s evangelical culture and the dark world of internet conspiracies, \u003ci\u003eBright and Tender Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a compulsively readable, twisty, and prismatic debut that brilliantly mines the mythology of a murder and the urge to exploit what we love but can't have. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Smart, assured, and absorbing.\" -\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanna Pearson\u003c\/b\u003e's stories have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories, The Best American Mystery and Suspense, \u003c\/i\u003eand elsewhere. She won the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and was a finalist for a Shirley Jackson Award, the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, and a Virginia Literary Award. She lives in North Carolina, where she works as a psychiatrist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.88 x 8.91 x 5.68 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 17, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47562528588025,"sku":"9781639737062","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/KAXel9iV1O9781639737062.webp?v=1774443030","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bright-and-tender-dark-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}