{"product_id":"slow-dancebooks","title":"Slow Dance","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAN INSTANT \u003cem\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/em\u003eBESTSELLER\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author Rainbow Rowell comes \u003cem\u003eSlow Dance—\u003c\/em\u003eher smartest, funniest, most \u003cem\u003epowerful\u003c\/em\u003e novel yet \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“If you, like me, think thirty-somethings methodically working through their issues is very hot, \u003cem\u003eSlow Dance\u003c\/em\u003e is the book for you. The people in it feel like people you know or maybe even people you’ve been. \u003cem\u003eSlow Dance\u003c\/em\u003e is sexy, sweet, wise, and nostalgic—Jane Austen’s \u003cem\u003ePersuasion\u003c\/em\u003e for our times.”\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e   — Gabrielle Zevin, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author of \u003cem\u003eTomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShiloh Butler was supposed to get out of north Omaha.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe used to sit out on the front porch with her best friend, Cary, and plot their escape. Shiloh was going to be an actress – she had a scholarship to a good school – and Cary was laser-focused on the Navy. Sharp, stoic, golden-eyed Cary . . . thin as a stick of gum and poor as dirt. He was probably the most decent person Shiloh has ever known. She hasn’t spoken to him in fourteen years.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Shiloh gets an invitation to a high school friend’s wedding, Cary is the first and only thing on her mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe desperately wants to see him again, but she doesn’t know if she can bear being seen \u003cem\u003eby\u003c\/em\u003e him. What would Cary think of Shiloh at thirty-three? A divorced mom living in the same house she grew up in. Someone who works behind a desk, not onstage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWould Cary even \u003cem\u003ewant\u003c\/em\u003e to see Shiloh after all this time? After \u003cem\u003eeverything\u003c\/em\u003e?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe answer, it turns out, is yes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her triumphant return to adult fiction, Rainbow Rowell has written a love story so honest and human – so \u003cem\u003ecathartic\u003c\/em\u003e – you’ll feel it in your bones. \u003cem\u003eSlow Dance\u003c\/em\u003e is as sharp and compassionate as you’d expect from Rowell. Deeply, profoundly romantic, it’s a power ballad of a book.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rowell, Rainbow","offers":[{"title":"Paperback (Adult Fiction)","offer_id":47687224099040,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0330\/3125\/8248\/files\/BNCImageAPI_bbea701b-9b95-4b16-b968-a3f2dbd75d74.jpg?v=1755978241","url":"https:\/\/agricola-street-books.myshopify.com\/products\/slow-dancebooks","provider":"Agricola Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}