{"product_id":"when-you-read-this","title":"When You Read This","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eWhen You Read This\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMary Adkins\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780062834683\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarper Paperbacks\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2020\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e400\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Warm, original, funny and heartbreaking, this novel made me drop everything so I could read it in one lovely afternoon. \u003cem\u003eWhen You Read This\u003c\/em\u003e is inventive and witty, but more importantly it's honest and wise. I adored it.\" -- Jennifer Close, author of \u003cem\u003eGirls in White Dresses \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Hopefuls \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor fans of Maria Semple and Rainbow Rowell, a comedy-drama for the digital age: an epistolary debut novel about the ties that bind and break our hearts.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor four years, Iris Massey worked side by side with PR maven Smith Simonyi, helping clients perfect their brands. But Iris has died, taken by terminal illness at only thirty-three. Adrift without his friend and colleague, Smith is surprised to discover that in her last six months, Iris created a blog filled with sharp and often funny musings on the end of a life not quite fulfilled. She also made one final request: for Smith to get her posts published as a book. With the help of his charmingly eager, if overbearingly forthright, new intern Carl, Smith tackles the task of fulfilling Iris's last wish. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBefore he can do so, though, he must get the approval of Iris' big sister Jade, an haute cuisine chef who's been knocked sideways by her loss. Each carrying their own baggage, Smith and Jade end up on a collision course with their own unresolved pasts and with each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTold in a series of e-mails, blog posts, online therapy submissions, text messages, legal correspondence, home-rental bookings, and other snippets of our virtual lives, \u003cem\u003eWhen You Read This\u003c\/em\u003e is a deft, captivating romantic comedy--funny, tragic, surprising, and bittersweet--that candidly reveals how we find new beginnings after loss. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"When You Read This | Mary Adkins | Paperback | 9780062834683 | Used: Very Good | Fiction 1712463","offer_id":48753955373208,"sku":"1712463","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/81FQCx8e2_L.jpg?v=1774070566","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/when-you-read-this","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}