{"product_id":"a-soft-mourning-9798276492049","title":"A Soft Mourning","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Alexandra Cary\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the death of his partner, Ira, reclusive writer \u003cb\u003eVirgil Channing\u003c\/b\u003e has spent a decade hidden inside a crumbling lakeside house, living half a life and avoiding the manuscript Ira left behind. He's not writing. He's barely surviving.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen four young strangers arrive at his door-each carrying a mysterious connection to Ira's past and their own private grief.\u003cbr\u003eA guarded son searching for answers.\u003cbr\u003eA gentle caregiver with a loss of her own.\u003cbr\u003eAn anxious prodigy on the brink.\u003cbr\u003eA firebrand hiding fear behind humor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThey claim the house belongs to them through Ira's old trust. They insist on staying. And suddenly Virgil's carefully constructed loneliness begins to crack.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a storm traps them together, Virgil gives them a task meant to reveal the one truth they're all running from: \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWrite a letter for the day you might choose to give up.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe assignment ignites a chain reaction of confession, confrontation, and emotional collapse-forcing Virgil to reckon with his own unfinished grief. In the basement, buried among Ira's belongings, he finds a letter addressed only to him... and the missing key to finishing Ira's final story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTo save the four who upended his quiet life-and to save himself-Virgil must step out of the house where he's been dying in slow motion and choose the world again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Soft Mourning\u003c\/b\u003e is a deeply emotional, hauntingly beautiful novel about grief, found family, and the extraordinary ways love echoes through the people we meet long after loss.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47594017882263,"sku":"9798276492049","price":1718.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798276492049.webp?v=1774984378","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/a-soft-mourning-9798276492049","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}