{"product_id":"in-the-aftermath","title":"In the Aftermath","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eIn the Aftermath\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJane Ward\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781647421939\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eShe Writes Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eWhen David Herron--overwhelmed and despairing, his family's business and \u003cbr\u003efinances in ruin due to the bursting lending bubble of 2008--takes his \u003cbr\u003eown life one chilly spring morning, he has no idea the ripple effect his\u003cbr\u003e decision will set into motion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTwo years later, his widow, Jules, is now an employee of the bakery she \u003cbr\u003eand David used to own--and still full of bitterness over David's lies, \u003cbr\u003eperceived cowardice, and ultimate abandonment of her and their \u003cbr\u003enow-teenage daughter, Rennie. Rennie, meanwhile, struggles socially at \u003cbr\u003eschool, resents her work-obsessed mother, and is convinced she's to \u003cbr\u003eblame for her father's death. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Denise, the former police detective who worked (and, due to her own\u003cbr\u003e personal struggles at the time, mishandled) David's case, catches sight\u003cbr\u003e of Rennie at her sons' school, she's struck by the girl's halo of \u003cbr\u003esadness--and becomes obsessed with attempting to right the wrongs she \u003cbr\u003ebelieves she perpetrated two years ago. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd as all this unfolds in Boston, Daniel, the guilt-ridden young man \u003cbr\u003ewho, in his old life as a banker, helped create the circumstances that \u003cbr\u003eled to David's suicide, continues to punish himself for his sins by \u003cbr\u003eliving half a life, working odd jobs and bouncing from one US city to \u003cbr\u003eanother, never staying long enough to make friends or build something \u003cbr\u003elasting. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUltimately, each of these very different people--all of them tied \u003cbr\u003etogether by one tragic event--must learn in their own way how to say \u003cbr\u003egood-bye to the past and move into a brighter future.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"She Writes Press","offers":[{"title":"In the Aftermath | Jane Ward | Paperback | 9781647421939 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1626463","offer_id":50699609768194,"sku":"1626463","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/71nmx7Hz1JS.jpg?v=1791587511","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/in-the-aftermath","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}