{"product_id":"the-radiance","title":"The Radiance","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eMost Anticipated Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eTime \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e Best Books of September by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003eand NPR \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e Best Books of Fall by \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e-\u003cb\u003e A Must-Read of September by \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Alive...vivid...heartfelt.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--AO Scott, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A towering accomplishment.\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eTheo Baker, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHow to Rule the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA mysterious accident along a country road sparks an awakening and an investigation in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and acclaimed novelist Ayad Akhtar's most daring work yet--a visionary novel of spiritual transformation in an age of fracture--\"bordering at times on the ineffable\" (Mary Gaitskill, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBad\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eBehavior\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is plunged into a spiritual awakening he can't tell from madness. In its grip, he's drawn to a brilliant campus colleague by an uncanny pull, and into a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator's accident--both the violence and its aftermath. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Moving between rural America and Europe, Islam and Christianity, the intimate and the metaphysical, \u003ci\u003eThe Radiance\u003c\/i\u003e is of our American moment and beyond it--asking not only what has broken, but what radiance remains.","brand":"S\u0026s\/Summit Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67818201874675,"sku":"9781668078631","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0067\/7432\/5312\/files\/imageloader_9b98752f-8ec6-424f-a394-4c1d1acebcae.jpg?v=1792614973","url":"https:\/\/letterpressplay.com\/products\/the-radiance","provider":"Letterpress PLAY","version":"1.0","type":"link"}