{"product_id":"city-of-strangers-isbn-9780143115786","title":"City of Strangers","description":"\u003cb\u003eFaith, family, and the weight of history intersect in this remarkable debut from a rising literary talent\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A cold, gray Sunday dawns on New York City to find Paul Metzger trudging through the winter streets to visit his past. He goes first to see his estranged, decades-older half-brother; then his dying father, whose notorious early life still haunts his children; and finally the ex-wife he cannot help but continue to love. But a fourth encounter-violent, unexpected-sets in motion a chain of events that will forever change Paul's life, as well as the family he's struggled so long to understand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Ian MacKenzie's stirring and lyrical debut is a story of a family inalterably fractured by its past, of a man who refuses to believe that what is done cannot be undone, and of a world that insists-catastrophically, in the end-otherwise.\" In \u003ci\u003eCity of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e, Ian MacKenzie tells, in direct, beautiful, and convincing language, a story that examines the surface tensions and deeper sources of pressure in today's uncertain world. \u003ci\u003eCity of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e exhibits a maturity well beyond the writer's years. He is a talent to watch.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Uzodinma Iweala, author of the national bestseller \u003ci\u003eBeasts of No Nation\u003c\/i\u003eIan MacKenzie graduated from Harvard in 2004 and lives in Brooklyn, New York.  \u003ci\u003eCity of Strangers\u003c\/i\u003e is his first novel.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304498712805,"sku":"NP9780143115786","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143115786.jpg?v=1767723772","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/city-of-strangers-isbn-9780143115786","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}