{"product_id":"9781908600417","title":"A House of Light and Stone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor anyone who grew up knowing the family story had missing pages, this is a Golden Crown Award shortlisted novel about a ten-year-old girl learning to write her own.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eIt's East Los Angeles, 1967. Duffy Chavez is ten years old, and the youngest in a houseful of half-siblings, kept together by a single mother and not much else. As other girls at school move through the world like they know their place in it, Duffy watches from the kerb, working out the rules as she goes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eBut no-one will answer her straight, about the space in the family where her own story should be. As the truth begins to surface in pieces, Duffy learns that knowing where you come from is not the same as knowing who you are... so she may just have to work the second one out for herself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eTold with uncompromising clarity through Duffy's eyes, \u003cem\u003eA House of Light and Stone\u003c\/em\u003e is at once smaller and larger than it looks: childhood unfolding in the space between one girl's questions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e---\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eFor readers who return to \u003cem\u003eHarper Lee\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSandra Cisneros\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJ.D. Salinger\u003c\/em\u003e for the unflinching moral gravity of a young narrator's perspective. This is a novel that refuses melodrama and earns its emotional weight rooted in the specific textures of the margins of a shifting America. Runyon writes with the grounded patience of a storyteller who trusts their reader, and their young narrator, in equal measure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eA story about identity, inheritance, and what a ten-year-old can see that the adults around her cannot.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Inspired Quill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46549104394481,"sku":"9781908600417","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781908600417_p0.jpg?v=1765926829","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908600417","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}