{"product_id":"face-down-reed-hale-9798252724089","title":"Face Down: A Novel of Marriage, Betrayal, and What Remains","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome things you notice and file away. A phone, always placed face down. A husband\u003cbr\u003ewho steps into the garage to take his calls. Small things. The kind you don't let\u003cbr\u003eyourself name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Nora Callahan picks up her husband's phone one ordinary Wednesday morning -\u003cbr\u003eface down on the nightstand, the way it always is - she reads something she cannot\u003cbr\u003eunread. What she discovers will unravel not just her marriage but her oldest\u003cbr\u003efriendship, leaving her seven months pregnant, without an income, and more alone than\u003cbr\u003eshe has ever been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe does not fall apart. She makes a list.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMethodical and clear-eyed, Nora begins to piece together exactly what was done to\u003cbr\u003eher - and by whom. As her father's health fades and her due date approaches, she\u003cbr\u003ebuilds a case, finds a lawyer, and starts to ask questions she should have asked years\u003cbr\u003eago: about the life she quietly built around other people, the art practice she let go\u003cbr\u003esilent, and what, underneath everything, has always been hers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFace Down\u003c\/b\u003e is a novel about the small betrayals that precede the large ones -\u003cbr\u003eabout marriage and grief, about the friendships that define us and the ones that break\u003cbr\u003eus, and about a woman who decides, in the wreckage of everything she trusted, to find\u003cbr\u003eout what she is made of.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003ePerfect for readers of Celeste Ng, Lisa Jewell, Liane Moriarty, and\u003cbr\u003eJodi Picoult.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Reed Hale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798252724089\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/18\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d","brand":"Reed Hale","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49172558774527,"sku":"9798252724089","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/face-down-reed-hale-9798252724089","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}