{"product_id":"the-things-that-keep-us-here","title":"The Things That Keep Us Here","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow far would you go to protect your family?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnn Brooks never thought she’d have to answer that question. Then she found her limits tested by a crisis no one could prevent. Now, as her neighborhood descends into panic, she must make tough choices to protect everyone she loves from a threat she cannot even see. In this chillingly urgent novel, Carla Buckley confronts us with the terrifying decisions we are forced to make when ordinary life changes overnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA year ago, Ann and Peter Brooks were just another unhappily married couple trying–and failing–to keep their relationship together while they raised two young daughters. Now the world around them is about to be shaken as Peter, a university researcher, comes to a startling realization: A virulent pandemic has made the terrible leap across the ocean to America’s heartland.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it is killing fifty out of every hundred people it touches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs their town goes into lockdown, Peter is forced to return home–with his beautiful graduate assistant. But the Brookses’ safe suburban world is no longer the refuge it once was. Food grows scarce, and neighbor turns against neighbor in grocery stores and at gas pumps. And then a winter storm strikes, and the community is left huddling in the dark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTrapped inside the house she once called home, Ann Brooks must make life-or-death decisions in an environment where opening a door to a neighbor could threaten all the things she holds dear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCarla Buckley’s poignant debut raises important questions to which there are no easy answers, in an emotionally riveting tale of one family facing unimaginable stress., ISBN13:9780440245094 ISBN10:0440245095 Material Type:hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cheap Book Depot","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52495004270899,"sku":"A-STR_UBD_H0000Z7K","price":13.62,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0748\/5086\/1363\/files\/81lr5waA02L.jpg?v=1759997743","url":"https:\/\/cheapbookdepot.com\/products\/the-things-that-keep-us-here","provider":"Cheap Book Depot","version":"1.0","type":"link"}