{"product_id":"wait-gabriella-burnham-hardcover","title":"Wait -- Gabriella Burnham, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young woman reunites with her teenage sister in their childhood home on Nantucket Island after their mother disappears in this alluring coming-of-age novel from the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eIt Is Wood, It Is Stone.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A novel to remember.\"--Sarah Thankam Mathews, author of \u003ci\u003eAll This Could Be Different\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eElise is out dancing the night before her college graduation when her younger sister, Sophie, calls to tell her that their mom is nowhere to be found. Elise leaves on the next flight back to her childhood home, Nantucket Island, for the first time in nearly four years. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe sisters soon learn that their mother was stopped by police on her way home from work and deported to São Paulo, Brazil. Intent on bringing her mother back, Elise stays and secures the same job she had in high school: monitoring endangered birds. Meanwhile, her best friend from college, Sheba--a gregarious socialite and heir to a famed children's toy company--reveals that she has inherited her grandfather's summer mansion on Nantucket. Elise's worlds collide as she confronts the emotional and material conditions that have fractured her family, as well as the life in Brazil that her mother has had to leave behind. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTold with penetrating insight, humor, and unexpected tenderness, \u003ci\u003eWait\u003c\/i\u003e is a story about a family swimming against the social currents that erode bonds: housing precarity, immigration systems, and inherited wealth. But it is also a story about love, wit, and sisterhood, and how two sisters cling to each other in the midst of cataclysmic change, all the while dreaming about a better future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gabriella Burnham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e One World\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.50w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780593596500\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/25\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2024 pg. 22\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriella Burnham\u003c\/b\u003e's debut novel, \u003ci\u003eIt Is Wood, It Is Stone\u003c\/i\u003e, was named a best book of the year by \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar, Marie Claire, Publishers Weekly, \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/i\u003e. She holds an MFA in creative writing from St. Joseph's College and has been awarded fellowships to Yaddo and MacDowell, where she was named a Harris Center Fellow. Her nonfiction writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eHarper's Bazaar. \u003c\/i\u003eBurnham and her partner live in Brooklyn, New York, with their two rescue cats, Galleta and Franz.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burnham, Gabriella","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45692088811748,"sku":"9780593596500","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/91NLm7QEqlL.jpg?v=1728231733","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/wait-gabriella-burnham-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}