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    "description": "<p>From the award-winning novelist Mary Gordon, here is a book whose twentieth-century wisdom can help us understand the difficulties we face in the twenty-first: <em>There Your Heart Lies</em> is a deeply moving novel about an American woman&rsquo;s experiences during the Spanish Civil War, the lessons she learned, and how her story will shape her granddaughter&rsquo;s path.<br /><br />Marian cut herself off from her wealthy, conservative Irish Catholic family when she volunteered during the Spanish Civil War&mdash;an experience she has always kept to herself. Now in her nineties, she shares her Rhode Island cottage with her granddaughter Amelia, a young woman of good heart but only a vague notion of life&rsquo;s purpose. Their daily existence is intertwined with Marian&rsquo;s secret past: the blow to her youthful idealism when she witnessed the brutalities on both sides of Franco&rsquo;s war and the romance that left her trapped in Spain in perilous circumstances for nearly a decade. When Marian is diagnosed with cancer, she finally speaks about what happened to her during those years&mdash;personal and ethical challenges nearly unthinkable to Amelia&rsquo;s millennial generation, as well as the unexpected gifts of true love and true friendship.<br /><br />Marian&rsquo;s story compels Amelia to make her own journey to Spain, to reconcile her grandmother&rsquo;s past with her own uncertain future. With their exquisite female bond at its core, this novel, which explores how character is forged in a particular moment in history and passed down through the generations, is especially relevant in our own time. It is a call to arms&mdash;a call to speak honestly about evil when it is before us, and to speak equally about goodness.</p>",
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