{"product_id":"the-shadow-year-a-novel","title":"The Shadow Year: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn New York's Long Island, in the unpredictable decade of the 1960s, a young boy spends much of his free time in the basement of his family's modest home, where he and his brother, Jim, have created Botch Town, a detailed cardboard replica of their community, complete with figurines representing friends and neighbors. Their little sister, Mary, smokes cigarettes, speaks in other voices, inhabits alternate personas . . . and, unbeknownst to her siblings, moves around the inanimate clay residents.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThere is a strangeness in the air as disappearances, deaths, spectral sightings, and the arrival of a sinister man in a long white car mark this unforgettable shadow year. But strangest of all is the inescapable fact that all these troubling occurrences directly cor-respond to the changes little Mary has made to the miniature town in their basement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jeffrey Ford","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":52343785128242,"sku":"9780061231537","price":15.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0988\/7934\/0850\/files\/9780061231537.jpg?v=1790297231","url":"https:\/\/53rdstreetbooks.com\/products\/the-shadow-year-a-novel","provider":"53rd Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}