{"product_id":"cupido-cupido-9781682832806","title":"Cupido Cupido","description":"\u003cp\u003e When sixteen-year-old Ignatius \"Egg\" Girard is told he'll be spending the next three months on his estranged grandfather's failing farm in Hale Creek, Kentucky, getting the place ready to sell, he foresees chores, isolation, and the erosion of everything he'd planned for his summer vacation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At first, Egg is resolved simply to endure: the scorching, tedious days; his grandfather's silences punctuated by harsh outbursts. But then Egg makes two bewildering discoveries. Hidden away in his mother's childhood bedroom, he unearths a bundle of decades-old letters written in a language he cannot decipher. When he shows them to his grandfather, the reaction is immediate and unsettling: the letters are thrown away without explanation. Then there's the startling encounter with a secretive ground-dwelling bird thought to have gone extinct in the 1930s, drawing a biologist and her team to the property just as it's about to be put up for sale. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Blending dry humor with emotional depth, \u003ci\u003eCupido Cupido\u003c\/i\u003e navigates family estrangement, cultural inheritance, and the complex act of growing up. As Egg wrestles with questions of identity and legacy, the farm becomes a place of unlikely discoveries--about the people who raised him, the profound weight of their shared histories, and the unspoken ways love persists through distance and time. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Likely to appeal to readers of Ann Patchett, Celeste Ng, and Kazuo Ishiguro, Emily Grandy's \u003ci\u003eCupido Cupido\u003c\/i\u003e is a quietly powerful exploration of memory, belonging, and the fine line between what is lost and what might yet be found. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emily Grandy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Tech University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/05\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682832806\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmily Grandy\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning novelist, biomedical editor, and birder who writes at the intersection of science, ecology, and storytelling. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eMichikusa House\u003c\/i\u003e, was awarded the Landmark Prize, the Nautilus Book Award, and was longlisted for the Edna Ferber Book Award. \u003ci\u003eCupido Cupido\u003c\/i\u003e is her second novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Emily Grandy \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":48229136138397,"sku":"9781682832806","price":32.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_5acbac99-b65f-48e3-9f6a-df88a59777f2.jpg?v=1778576120","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/cupido-cupido-9781682832806","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}