{"product_id":"9780593656006","title":"The Spoiled Heart: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003e“Will consume any reader who picks it up.”—Ron Charles, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant and riveting story of ambition, love, family secrets, and unintended consequences, from “bold storyteller” (\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e) and two-time Booker Prize nominee Sunjeev Sahota\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNayan Olak keeps seeing Helen Fletcher around town. She’s returned with her teenage son to live in the run-down house at the end of the lane, and—though she’s strangely guarded—Nayan can’t help but be drawn to her. He hasn’t risked love since losing his young family in a terrible accident twenty years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the wake of the tragedy, Nayan’s labor union, long a cornerstone of his community, became the center of his life: a way for him to channel his energies into making the world a better—fairer, as he sees it—place. Now he’s decided to mount a run for the leadership. But his campaign pits him against a newcomer, Megha, who quickly proves to be a more formidable challenger than he anticipated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs Nayan’s differences with Megha spin out of control, complicating the ideals he’s always held dear, he grows closer to Helen—and unknowingly barrels toward long-held secrets about how their pasts might be connected. Suddenly, much more is threatened than his chances of winning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn one sense a tragedy in the classic mold, tracing one man’s seemingly inexorable fall, \u003ci\u003eThe Spoiled Heart \u003c\/i\u003eis also an explosively contemporary story of how a few words or a single action—to one person careless, to another, charged—can trigger a cascade of unimaginable consequences. A vivid and multilayered exploration of the mysteries of the heart, how community is forged and broken, and the shattering impact of secrets and assumptions alike, it is a blazing achievement from one of Britain’s foremost living writers.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370765848637,"sku":"9780593656006","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780593656006_p0.jpg?v=1771579659","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780593656006","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}