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    "title": "Trowbridge Road",
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    "description": "ABOUT TROWBRIDGE ROAD\nA 2020 National Book Awards Longlist Selection\nA Shelf Awareness Best Book of 2020\nA Reading Group Choices Best Book of 2020 \nA Mighty Girl Best Book of 2020\n\nIn a stunning novel set in the 1980s, a girl with heavy secrets awakens her sleepy street to the complexities of love and courage.\n\nIt\u2019s the summer of \u201983 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father\u2019s death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending Ziggy, an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing troubles of his own. But as June Bug\u2019s connection to the world grows stronger, her mother\u2019s grows more distant \u2014 even dangerous \u2014 pushing June Bug to choose between truth and healing and the only home she has ever known.\n\nTrowbridge Road paints an unwavering portrait of a girl and her family touched by mental illness and grief. Set in the Boston suburbs during the first years of the AIDS epidemic, the novel explores how a seemingly perfect neighborhood can contain restless ghosts and unspoken secrets. Written with deep insight and subtle lyricism by acclaimed author Marcella Pixley, Trowbridge Road demonstrates our power to rescue one another even when our hearts are broken.\n\n",
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