{"product_id":"9781625570246","title":"The Stone Sister","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpanning the mid to late 20th century and set in the Elkhorn Valley of southwestern Montana, The Stone Sister tells the story of a child' s birth, disappearance, and discovery in a home for \" backward children.\" Told through the voices of a father, nurse, and sister, the novel is hailed by award-winning writer Ann Patchett as \"beautifully written and compassionately told...a novel that will stay with me for a long, long time.\" The story explores the power of family secrets and society' s evolving definitions of \" normal\" - as it pertains to family, medicine, and social structure and sheds light on the beginnings of the disability justice movement a family reckons with a painful past. Incredibly, the novel is based on Caroline Patterson' s personal story. As an adult, she discovered she had an older sister with Down syndrome who was written out of her family history. Her name was also Caroline Patterson.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black Lawrence Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49215375245539,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0764\/3758\/6147\/files\/9781625570246-1.jpg?v=1788399649","url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/products\/9781625570246","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}