{"product_id":"satellite","title":"Satellite","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"We all wonder what it would be like to live a different kind of life -- but what if you could turn the TV on and see that fantasy playing out on the screen? That's the premise at the center of \u003ci\u003eSatellite\u003c\/i\u003e, the new novel from Isle McElroy.\" --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt's the mid-90s, and Paul and Johanna are living a comfortable life in rural New Jersey. When Paul met and wooed Johanna, she was waiting tables at a miserable dive in North Carolina. Now, she has a nice house, a pool, and a purpose: her charming, devastatingly handsome husband, a successful small-business owner nine years her senior. So when Paul sits down to dinner one night and asks her for a divorce, Johanna is utterly blindsided. She refuses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSoon thereafter, Paul is paralyzed in an accident. Johanna becomes his devoted caretaker, and talk of separation is forgotten. In her free moments, Johanna watches television\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003esatellite TV, with its hundreds of channels, a reliable escape from her arduous days. Until she stumbles on something unusual: an extra channel, not found in the TV guide, whose only show is a round-the-clock feed of a woman who looks, acts, and talks just like her. Except this other Johanna lives in New York City, alone, and seems to have a different person in her bed every night. As watching morphs from hobby to obsession, the drama moves off-screen and begins to encroach on Johanna's real life, threatening everything she holds most dear. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eProvocative and profound, \u003ci\u003eSatellite\u003c\/i\u003e is a transfixing novel that boldly explores the love, care, boredom, pleasure, resentment, and connection that make a marriage--and how transgressive it can feel to choose yourself. As compulsively readable as it is deeply felt, this novel confirms Isle McElroy as a virtuosic writer at the height of their talents.","brand":"Viking","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54760307589486,"sku":"9798217378913","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_fa4c4200-7130-4c2b-8051-b69d70ca06dd.jpg?v=1789051497","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/satellite","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}