{"product_id":"book-cgk3","title":"Garbo Laughs","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Ottawa Book Award\u003cbr\u003eFinalist for the Governor General's Literary Award\u003cbr\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year \u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e Top Five Canadian Fiction  Book of the Year \u003cbr\u003e A \u003ci\u003eMaclean’s\u003c\/i\u003e Top Ten Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth Hay’s runaway  national bestseller is a funny, sad-eyed, deliciously entertaining novel about a  woman caught in a tug of war between real life and the films of the past. Inflamed  by the movies she was deprived of as a child, Harriet Browning forms a Friday-night  movie club with three companions-of-the-screen: a boy who loves Frank Sinatra, a  girl with Bette Davis eyes, and an earthy sidekick named after Dinah Shore. Into  this idiosyncratic world, in time with the devastating ice storm of 1998, come two  refugees from Hollywood: Harriet’s Aunt Leah, the jaded widow of a screenwriter blacklisted  in the 1950s, and her sardonic, often overbearing stepson, Jack. They bring harsh  reality and illuminate the pull of family and friendship, the sting of infidelity  and revenge, the shock of illness and sudden loss. Poignant, brilliant, and delightfully  droll, \u003ci\u003eGarbo Laughs \u003c\/i\u003ereveals how the dramas of everyday life are sometimes the most  astonishing of all.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49333497168176,"sku":"BDcgk3","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/254289-cgk3-Square.jpg?v=1733872219","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-cgk3","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}