{"product_id":"tiny-americans-paperback","title":"Tiny Americans - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDevin Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the National Bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Boat Runner\u003c\/em\u003e comes a poignant, luminous novel that follows one family over decades and across the world--perfect for fans of the film \u003cem\u003eBoyhood\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWestern New York, 1978\u003c\/em\u003e: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents' destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking. Terrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled sky. Despite these lessons, he doesn't show them how to survive without him. And when these seasons of trying and failing to quit booze and be a better man are over, Terrance is gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlone with their artist mother, Catrin, the Thurber children are left to grapple with the anger they feel for the one parent who deserted them and a growing resentment for the one who didn't. As Catrin withdraws into her own world, Jamie throws herself into painting while her brothers smash out their rage in brutal, no-holds-barred football games with neighborhood kids. Once they can leave--Jamie for college, Lewis for the navy, and Connor for work--they don't look back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut Terrance does. Crossing the country, sobering up, and starting over has left him with razor-sharp regret. Terrance doesn't know that Jamie, now an academic, inhabits an ever-shrinking circle of loneliness; that Lewis, a merchant marine, fears life on dry land; that Connor struggles to connect with the son he sees teetering on an all-too-familiar edge. He only knows that he has one last try to build a bridge, through the years, to his family.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eComposed of a series of touchstone moments, \u003cem\u003eTiny Americans\u003c\/em\u003e is a thrilling and bittersweet rendering of a family that, much like the tides, continues to come together and drift apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the nationally bestselling author of The Boat Runner comes a luminous novel that follows one family over decades and across the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestern New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents' destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled sky. 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Terrance doesn't know that Jamie, now an academic, inhabits an ever-shrinking circle of loneliness; that Lewis, a merchant marine, fears life on dry land; that Connor struggles to connect with the son he sees teetering on an all-too-familiar edge. He only knows that he has one last try to build a bridge, through the years, to his family.--\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom the nationally bestselling author of The Boat Runner comes a luminous novel that follows one family over decades and across the world.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWestern New York, 1978: Jamie, Lewis, and Connor Thurber watch their parents' destructive dance of loving, hating, and drinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTerrance Thurber spends this year teaching his children about the natural world: they listen to the heartbeat of trees, track animal footprints, sleep under the star-filled sky. 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Terrance doesn't know that Jamie, now an academic, inhabits an ever-shrinking circle of loneliness; that Lewis, a merchant marine, fears life on dry land; that Connor struggles to connect with the son he sees teetering on an all-too-familiar edge. 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