{"product_id":"bright-and-tender-dark","title":"Bright and Tender Dark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Pearson bursts onto the scene with a gripping murder mystery fueled by the craziness of the internet.\" -\u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDays after the dawn of the new millennium, beautiful, charismatic nineteen-year-old Karlie Richards is found brutally murdered in her campus apartment. Two decades later, her freshman-year roommate Joy, mid-divorce and desperate for a new beginning, stumbles on an old letter from Karlie and becomes convinced the man in prison for her murder didn't kill her. It was someone else. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMoving between the doomsaying of 90s evangelical culture and the dark world of internet conspiracies, \u003ci\u003eBright and Tender Dark\u003c\/i\u003e is a compulsively readable, twisty, and prismatic debut that brilliantly mines the mythology of a murder and the urge to exploit what we love but can't have. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Smart, assured, and absorbing.\" -\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48833462927565,"sku":"9781639737062","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_b179aef4-776e-4591-bdc0-70fd9a807516.jpg?v=1790873918","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/bright-and-tender-dark","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}