{"product_id":"this-familiar-heart-an-improbable-love-story","title":"This Familiar Heart: An Improbable Love Story","description":"In this intimate rendering of a relationship we learn how deceptive surface impressions can be.\nLeon Hale, author of Bonney’s Place, was sixty years old, a “country boy” who wrote about rural Texans with humor and sensitivity in his popular column for The Houston Post and, later the Houston Chronicle. Babette Fraser at thirty-six was a child of privilege, a city girl educated abroad, struggling in her career while raising a young son. No one thought it could work.\nEven Hale himself held serious doubts. But it did endure. The interior congruencies they discovered through a long and turbulent courtship knit them tightly together for the rest of his life.\nAnd when he died during the Pandemic isolation period, searing levels of grief and doubt threatened Babette’s understanding of the partnership and marriage that had sustained her for forty years. Had he really been the person she thought he was? Had he kept secrets that would forever change her view of him?\nIn candid, evocative prose, she explores the distorted perceptions that often follow the death of a cherished spouse, and the loving resolution that allows life to go on.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0975272756\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: BVV.0975272756.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Hale, Babette Fraser\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: The item shows wear from consistent use, but it remains in good condition and works perfectly. All pages and cover are intact  including the dust cover, if applicable . Spine may show signs of wear. Pages may include limited notes and highlighting. May NOT include discs, access code or other supplemental materials.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Blue Vase Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43357842145341,"sku":"BVV.0975272756.G","price":5.89,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0589\/4225\/9261\/files\/0975272756-0.jpg?v=1784238247","url":"https:\/\/www.bluevasebooks.com\/products\/this-familiar-heart-an-improbable-love-story","provider":"Blue Vase Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}