{"product_id":"clarity-tim-obrien-9780063572362","title":"Clarity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Tim O'Brien is the one American author whose works I look forward to the most.\" --Haruki Murakami\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe author of the American classic \u003ci\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/i\u003e returns with what may be his finest novel yet, an unconventional love story that unspools over decades and across continents between a Lutheran minister who has lost his faith and a young woman, brilliant and blazingly delinquent, fleeing a traumatic past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBought a horse. I'm riding her to South Dakota or Montana or Wyoming or Mars. You were good to me. But watch out for clarity. People who know all the answers are fucking fools.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe minister of Damascus Lutheran Church in St. Paul, MN, Tom Barrie--a former U.S. Army Chaplain Assistant who had deployed to Afghanistan in 2003--is wrestling with a crisis of faith. Ruby Stjern--a pregnant nineteen-year-old, alone in the world, who lives by her considerable wits--seeks Tom's help in arranging for the unwanted child to be adopted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the baby is stillborn, Tom lies to Ruby, telling her the child survived. Tom is haunted by his lie, and becomes obsessed with finding Ruby, who has vanished into the underworld of street life, triggering an odyssey that marks their lives over decades to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForever bonded, the two find freedom in their own ways--Tom through minor keys of commitment and duty; Ruby through her expansive expression of life. As epic as \u003ci\u003eGoing After Cacciato\u003c\/i\u003e and as deeply philosophical as \u003ci\u003eThe Things They Carried\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eClarity\u003c\/i\u003e is a return to the grand themes and scope that make Tim O'Brien one of the great writers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tim O'Brien\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0063572362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780063572362\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mariner Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2027\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d","brand":"Tim O'Brien","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48659876610303,"sku":"9780063572362","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/clarity-tim-obrien-9780063572362","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}