{"product_id":"hospice-gregory-howard-9781573660518","title":"Hospice","description":"When Lucy is little something happens to her brother. He disappears for months and when he returns he's not the same. He's not her brother. At least this is what Lucy believes. But what actually happened? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eComic, melancholy, haunted, and endlessly inventive, Gregory Howard's debut novel \u003ci\u003eHospice\u003c\/i\u003e follows Lucy later in life as she drifts from job to job caring for dogs, children, and older women--all the while trying to escape the questions of her past only to find herself confronting them again and again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn the odd and lovely but also frightening life of Lucy, everyday neighborhoods become wonderlands where ordinary houses reveal strange inmates living together in monastic seclusion, wayward children resort to blackmail to get what they want, and hospitals seem to appear and disappear to avoid being found. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReplete with the sense that something strange is about to happen at any moment, \u003ci\u003eHospice\u003c\/i\u003e blurs the borders between the mundane and miraculous, evoking the intensity of the secret world of childhood and distressing and absurd search for a place to call home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gregory Howard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1573660515\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781573660518\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e F2c\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2015","brand":"Gregory Howard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46052263690495,"sku":"9781573660518","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2732c9bc-8435-466d-95a5-d9a1c81d84a3.jpg?v=1723555814","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/hospice-gregory-howard-9781573660518","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}