{"product_id":"fountain","title":"Fountain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Casey Scieszka's debut novel is absolutely delicious, like \u003cem\u003eTuck Everlasting\u003c\/em\u003e for grown-ups. The premise is so good--an immortal woman's search for the fountain of youth--that the writing, crisp and funny, feels like an extra treat. An excellent debut.\"--Emma Straub, bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eThis Time Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA propulsive and deeply moving novel about eternity and mortality that asks what it would mean to live forever.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVera Van Valkenburgh hasn't been home in one hundred and eighty-eight years. But now Vera, forever twenty-six and able to heal from any wound, has returned to the Catskills. Whatever made her family immortal happened here, and if she can uncover it, maybe she can reverse it. After nearly two centuries--an endless sequence of unnoticed, meaningless lives and a soul-shaking incident in the desert--she longs to be released.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePosing as a newly arrived forest ranger, she quickly blends into the upstate community and learns of something curious and disturbing. A mysterious, well-funded company is snapping up local property, no matter how high the asking price. But when her brother, a fellow immortal shows up, accompanied by a woman whose face is incredibly familiar to Vera, the purpose for her return gets clouded and Vera is in a race against time to find out what has caused her condition before someone else does.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending the spectacular with the everyday in a tale filled with humor and warmth, \u003cem\u003eThe Fountain\u003c\/em\u003e explores what gives life meaning and how our understandings of our histories shape--and cage--us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Casey Scieszka","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53627092533612,"sku":"9780063393400","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/7985\/1884\/files\/9780063393400-us.jpg?v=1776437067","url":"https:\/\/commercestreetbooks.com\/products\/fountain","provider":"Commerce Street Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}