{"product_id":"9780316528559","title":"City on the Edge","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn American teen living abroad discovers the truth about himself and his family in this thrilling novel from \"one of the best dialogue hounds in the business\" (\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1972, Beirut, Lebanon. Young American Matthew lives with his father, a rising foreign service attache, and mother, in an exclusive community of ex-patriots. It is the summer Matthew becomes a teenager, falls in love, nearly dies, and watches his family, and the city, fall apart.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is in this world of Western schemers and local merchants, of hoodlums and politicians, that Matthew begins to solve the mystery of who his father really is, and what role he is really playing in the upheaval that is shaking the city loose of its old, civilized and way and ushering in a new and frightening radicalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the story of a boy and a family, besieged. Intimate in scope and wrenching in its vision of lost innocence, \u003ci\u003eCity on the Edge\u003c\/i\u003e is a mystery and spy story from the past, and a coming of age story for our time.","brand":"Little, Brown and Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46556678160625,"sku":"9780316528559","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780316528559_p0.jpg?v=1765418847","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780316528559","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}