{"product_id":"stone-yard-devotional","title":"Stone Yard Devotional","description":"\u003cb\u003eBOOKER PRIZE SHORTLIST\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eTOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eWASHINGTON POST\u003c\/i\u003e TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLOS ANGELES TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eTOP FIFTEEN BOOK OF THE YEAR \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eStone Yard Devotional\u003c\/i\u003e is as extraordinary as you've heard.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An exquisite, wrenching novel of leaving your life behind.\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Meditative (but by no means uneventful).\" --\u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Riveting prose about how humans beat back despair.\"--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, a novel about forgiveness, grief, and what it means to be good, from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Weekend \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Way of Things\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eBurnt out and in need of retreat, a middle-aged woman leaves Sydney to return to the place she grew up, taking refuge in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of rural Australia. She doesn't believe in God, or know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive existence almost by accident. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut disquiet interrupts this secluded life with three visitations. First comes a terrible mouse plague, each day signaling a new battle against the rising infestation. Second is the return of the skeletal remains of a sister who disappeared decades before, presumed murdered. And finally, a troubling visitor plunges the narrator further back into her past. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMeditative, moving, and finely observed, \u003ci\u003eStone Yard Devotional\u003c\/i\u003e is a seminal novel from a writer of rare power, exploring what it means to retreat from the world, the true nature of forgiveness, and the sustained effect of grief on the human soul.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51943681917159,"sku":"9798217047369","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_069282b8-a16d-47f7-877b-57959030be6f.jpg?v=1775335490","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/stone-yard-devotional","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}