{"product_id":"wish-you-well-david-baldacci","title":"Wish You Well","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York, 1940. A car crash on a rain-slicked road takes Lou and Oz Cardinal's father and leaves their mother unable to speak or move. Twelve-year-old Lou and her little brother are sent south to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with a great-grandmother they have never met.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn Louisa Mae Cardinal's hardscrabble farm, the city kids learn to plow, haul water and survive a mountain winter, and they find friends in a barefoot boy named Diamond and a kindhearted lawyer, Cotton Longfellow. Then a coal and gas company comes for the land, and the fight to keep the farm ends up in a courtroom where the whole town takes sides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWish You Well\u003c\/em\u003e (2000) was a departure for David Baldacci: no spies or assassins, but a family story drawn from his own mother's childhood in the Virginia mountains. Readers who know him only from his thrillers are often surprised by how quiet and personal it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGood for:\u003c\/strong\u003e fans of historical fiction, Appalachian settings and coming-of-age novels like \u003cem\u003eTo Kill a Mockingbird\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eWhere the Crawdads Sing\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"David Baldacci","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover \/ Used - Good","offer_id":67688074117369,"sku":"9780446527163-UG","price":2.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0849\/1289\/8297\/files\/view_archive.jpg?v=1794538264","url":"https:\/\/pellingtons.com\/products\/wish-you-well-david-baldacci","provider":"Pellingtons","version":"1.0","type":"link"}