{"product_id":"bright-and-tender-dark-joanna-pearson-9781639737062","title":"Bright and Tender Dark","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanna Pearson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1639737065\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781639737062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.91h x 5.68w x 0.88d","brand":"Joanna Pearson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48449933050111,"sku":"9781639737062","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0f0a14a6-0da3-4c78-91c3-bf0a25d6e707.jpg?v=1777265538","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bright-and-tender-dark-joanna-pearson-9781639737062","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}