{"product_id":"feast-of-love-hc","title":"Feast Of Love HC","description":"\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNational Book Award Finalist • A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, f\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003erom \"one of our most gifted writers\"\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e(Chicago Tribune)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eand the winner of the PEN\/Malamud Award\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom.\" —The Washington Post\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Feast of Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is just that—a sumptuous work of fiction about the thing that most distracts and delights us. In a re-imagined \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMidsummer Night's Dream,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e men and women speak of and desire their ideal mates; parents seek out their lost children; adult children try to come to terms with their own parents and, in some cases, find new ones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn vignettes both comic and sexy, the owner of a coffee shop recalls the day his first wife seemed to achieve a moment of simple perfection, while she remembers the women's softball game during which she was stricken by the beauty of the shortstop. A young couple spends hours at the coffee shop fueling the idea of their fierce love. A professor of philosophy, stopping by for a cup of coffee, makes a valiant attempt to explain what he knows to be the inexplicable workings of the human heart Their voices resonate with each other—disparate people joined by the meanderings of love—and come together in a tapestry that depicts the most irresistible arena of life. Crafted with subtlety, grace, and power, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Feast of Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a masterful novel.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-expander-header a-expander-partial-collapse-header\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52069477744871,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/3397\/3991\/files\/91qWQuqo5eL._AC_UY218.jpg?v=1778883369","url":"https:\/\/friendsmvl.org\/products\/feast-of-love-hc","provider":"Friends of the Mill Valley Library","version":"1.0","type":"link"}