{"product_id":"9781961841949","title":"A Catalog of Small Cruelties","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThere are some griefs so complete they begin to invent their own evidence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen twenty-eight-year-old architect Violet Holloway wakes from a coma after a devastating car accident, she remembers three dead children no one else believes ever existed. Not her polished attorney husband, Silas Holloway. Not her exhausted social worker sister, Piper Langston. Not the doctors, the police, or the photographs that insist Violet had been alone that night.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack home in their affluent Midwestern suburb, Violet begins writing a private manuscript she calls \u003cem\u003eA Catalog of Small Cruelties\u003c\/em\u003e-a meditation on motherhood, memory, neglect, and the terrible things people allow to happen to children when no one is looking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThen the bodies begin appearing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA disgraced foster parent abandoned in an orchard house.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA father left on a frozen trail.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA woman discovered beside a riverbank.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA corpse arranged inside a library after closing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnother found at a campground swallowed by fog.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach victim shares a chilling connection: somewhere in the exhausted late-night conversations of Piper's child welfare caseload, their names had once surfaced beside accusations of neglect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs detectives close in and the city spirals into fear, Violet's grief begins to look less like trauma and more like design. Because the deeper her manuscript goes, the clearer one horrifying truth becomes:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViolet is not simply documenting the tragedy.She is curating it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHaunting, literary, and razor-sharp, \u003cem\u003eA Catalog of Small Cruelties\u003c\/em\u003e is a psychologically devastating suspense novel about invented motherhood, moral obsession, and the stories people tell themselves to survive the unbearable.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shady Oak Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48212672676081,"sku":"9781961841949","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781961841949_p0.jpg?v=1779590422","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781961841949","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}