{"product_id":"where-light-is-a-place-beverly-conner-9781480233997","title":"Where Light Is a Place","description":"Set in a domestic noir world of Los Angeles' Manhattan Beach in the 1940s, \u003ci\u003eWhere Light Is a Place\u003c\/i\u003e is a lyrically devastating and inspiring portrait of a young girl coming of age and of a family in crisis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e It's 1948 and 12-year old Palmer McNeil's world of sand, sea, and Saturday matinees is not as idyllic as it seems: tar and polio lurk at the beach, a molester stalks the movie theater, earthquakes rumble, and treacherous rip tides reach for swimmers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Inside her family's dilapidated beach shack, dwindling finances, the hallucinatory terrors of her mother's alcoholic delirium tremens, and the arrival of her psychic grandmother, crowd the struggling family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Realizing at last that she does not have the power to hold her family together, she invents her own form of a surfer's initiation, and Palmer, the careful girl, risks everything in that great water so like the unpredictable future of adolescence that rushes toward her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Beverly Conner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1480233994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781480233997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 298\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.67d","brand":"Beverly Conner","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48458679058687,"sku":"9781480233997","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d84fa658-edb6-42cd-a888-a10e640149d7.jpg?v=1777405926","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/where-light-is-a-place-beverly-conner-9781480233997","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}