{"product_id":"summer-of-the-bear-9780802119742","title":"The Summer Of The Bear","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith her fifth novel, critically acclaimed writer and journalist Bella Pollen takes readers into the private dynamics of a family grappling with the loss of father and husband in Scotland\u0026amp;;s Outer Hebrides, where between elemental beauty and utter bleakness, strange forces are at play.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1980 Germany, under Cold War tension, a mole is suspected in the British Embassy. When the clever diplomat Nicky Fleming dies suddenly and suspiciously, it\u0026amp;;s convenient to brand him the traitor. But was his death an accident, murder, or suicide? As the government digs into Nicky\u0026amp;;s history, his wife, Letty, relocates with her three children to a remote Scottish island hoping to salvage their family. But the isolated shores of her childhood retreat only intensify their distance, and it is Letty\u0026amp;;s brilliant and peculiar youngest child, Jamie, who alone holds on to the one thing he\u0026amp;;s sure of: his father has promised to return and he was a man who never broke a promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExploring the island, Jamie and his teenaged sisters discover that a domesticated brown bear has been marooned on shore, hiding somewhere among the seaside caves. Jamie feels that the bear may have a strange connection to his father, and as he seeks the truth, his father\u0026amp;;s story surfaces unexpected ways. Bella Pollen has an uncanny ability to capture the unnoticeable moments in which families grow quiet. A novel about the corrosive effects of secrets and the extraordinary imagination of youth, The Summer of the Bear is Pollen\u0026amp;;s most ambitious and affecting book yet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Grove Press \/ Atlantic Monthly Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42977872347302,"sku":"9780802119742","price":19.9,"currency_code":"MYR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0443\/8471\/4918\/products\/9780802119742_1.jpg?v=1656104571","url":"https:\/\/bookxcess.myshopify.com\/products\/summer-of-the-bear-9780802119742","provider":"Staging Site ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}