{"product_id":"surrender-hardcover","title":"Surrender - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJennifer Acker\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA woman retreats from academic life in New York City to manage a family goat farm in New England, a novel that Richard Russo calls \"splendid and provides what I crave from all stories: vividly drawn characters worth spending time with and a richly rendered place for them to inhabit.\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy Richard has enjoyed a two-decade-long, successful career in public relations in New York City when she feels compelled to move back to rural Massachusetts to try to save her father's farm. Returning to her childhood home at age 47 is hard enough, but the difficulties multiply once she's settled in: her determination to raise dairy goats and make cheese is hampered at first by her total inexperience, and then by the sudden loss of her farming mentor. To make matters worse, her husband, Michael, who followed her to the farm reluctantly and who has made a disastrous financial decision, is suddenly in severely declining health. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLucy finds solace in Sandy, a girlhood companion who quickly becomes more than a friend, but their new intimacy places the Richard farm in the crosshairs of Sandy's employer, a solar energy company. How Lucy contends with the precariousness--at once financial, physical and emotional-- of her new life, and with the competing passions and obligations that grow within and around her, is at the heart of this intimate drama of love and loss, of desire and friendship, and of the alluring possibilities of second acts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Acker\u003c\/b\u003e is author of the debut novel \u003ci\u003eThe Limits of the World\u003c\/i\u003e, a fiction honoree for the Massachusetts Book Award. Her memoir \"Fatigue\" is an Amazon bestseller, and her short stories, essays, translations, and reviews have appeared in the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal, Oprah Daily, the Washington Post, Literary Hub, n+1\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, among other places. Acker has an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars and is founder and editor in chief of The Common. At Amherst College, she directs the Literary Publishing Internship and LitFest. She lives in western Massachusetts and Portland, Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 275\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 14, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45582927462444,"sku":"9781953002716","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/6260\/8940\/files\/x_qTb0dzXy9781953002716.webp?v=1780105813","url":"https:\/\/littleredgeneralstore.com\/products\/surrender-hardcover","provider":"Little Red General Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}