{"product_id":"freebird-jon-raymond-9781555977603","title":"Freebird","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA page-turning new novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eLivability, \u003c\/i\u003ewinner of the Oregon Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Singers, an all-American family in the California style, are about to lose everything. Anne is a bureaucrat in the Los Angeles Office of Sustainability whose ideals are compromised by a proposal from a venture capitalist seeking to privatize the city's wastewater. Her brother, Ben, a former Navy SEAL, returns from Afghanistan disillusioned and struggling with PTSD, and starts down a path toward a radical act of violence. And Anne's teenage son, Aaron, can't decide if he should go to college or pitch it all and hit the road. They all live inside the long shadow of the Singer patriarch Grandpa Sam, whose untold experience of the Holocaust shapes his family's moral character to the core.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJon Raymond, screenwriter of the acclaimed films \u003ci\u003eMeek's Cutoff \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eNight Moves\u003c\/i\u003e, combines these narrative threads into a hard-driving story of one family's moral crisis. In \u003ci\u003eFreebird\u003c\/i\u003e, Raymond delivers a brilliant, searching novel about death and politics in America today, revealing how the fates of our families are irrevocably tied to the currents of history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jon Raymond\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 155597760X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781555977603\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Graywolf Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/03\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/17\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2016 pg. 24\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/31\/2017","brand":"Jon Raymond","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45896849359103,"sku":"9781555977603","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5f4ab5e4-abfb-4954-b89c-64a3892da8fa.jpg?v=1721372489","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/freebird-jon-raymond-9781555977603","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}