{"product_id":"the-fountain-by-casey-scieszaka","title":"The Fountain by Casey Scieszaka","description":"\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\"A small-town mystery with a dash of historical fiction and romance, this book is perfect for readers of V. E. Schwab’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Invisible Life of Addie LaRue\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.” —\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA propulsive and deeply moving novel about eternity and mortality that asks what it would mean to live forever.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\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\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBlending the spectacular with the everyday in a tale filled with humor and warmth,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Fountain\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eexplores what gives life meaning and how our understandings of our histories shape—and cage—us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lost \u0026 Bound Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52311940956471,"sku":null,"price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0905\/6675\/4615\/files\/71TEsoKiGiL._SL1500.jpg?v=1780348805","url":"https:\/\/lostandboundbooks.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fountain-by-casey-scieszaka","provider":"Lost \u0026 Bound Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}