{"product_id":"unexpected-9781963511963","title":"Unexpected","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sudden death, a frayed relationship with her only child, and a series of unnerving panic attacks converge in Kate’s life just as the world around her spins into an uproar. It is 1972, and the nation pulses with possibility and unrest. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt ERA rallies and in intimate consciousness-raising circles, women are speaking openly about selfhood, equality, desire, and even dominion over their own bodies. Drawn in almost against her will, Kate wonders if her own freedom is overdue. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMarried at eighteen out of necessity, she has spent decades defined by obligation—wife, mother, caretaker. Now newly widowed and untethered from those roles, she faces a question she’s never been free to ask: who is she on her own and what does she want?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen she meets Jeremy Horn, a charismatic doctor living in a secluded commune outside Asheville, Kate experiences an unexpected awakening—of desire, possibility, and a self she has never fully inhabited. But parts of Jeremy’s life remain closed to her, shadowed by secrecy and constraints that may prove as confining as those she’s trying to leave behind. As she navigates the uneasy terrain between past and future, intimacy and self-possession, Kate discovers that reinvention is anything but simple.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a novel about the quiet revolutions that unfold within a single life—and the courage to claim one’s own story. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jean McAulay","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49221198315771,"sku":"9781963511963","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_0eccfe2e-757a-4c8d-b5d6-47afb378fc1f.jpg?v=1787685257","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/unexpected-9781963511963","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}