{"product_id":"swans","title":"Swans","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA tender, exuberant tale of hitchhiking, lonely hearts, and queer dreaming, set during the great postal workers' strike of 1970, \u003ci\u003eSwans \u003c\/i\u003eis the captivating second novel by the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eAgatha of Little Neon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is March 1970, and the postal workers are on strike. Armed with a fold-up knife, a sock full of nickels, and a letter to the woman she loves, Sibby is on the run. An avid lonely-hearts correspondent, she escapes a conversion camp and hitches north, making her way through the kindness of strangers. Then she meets Lee, who is driving a pair of swans to Ohio: with the mail stopped, everyone has to be their own mail carrier, criss-crossing the Midwest to deliver or retrieve what they would have otherwise dropped in the post--a baby gift, a pension check, a crate of baby chicks, a love letter. When a gas station clerk asks Sibby and Lee to take an important message to a woman in another county, they begin to tell each other stories about the correspondents, crafting a happy queer love story, even as their own begins. But road trips are never without detours, unexpected passengers, and mechanical failures. Sibby and Lee meet a stranger at a motel who needs a ride north, and they find themselves drawn into a whole new set of adventures that complicate their mission and force them to confront their feelings and choices. Are they scabs for delivering the letter? Can a draft card be canceled? How do we know if a story is ours to tell? And if an identity is made up, is it not real? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTender, funny, and insightful, Claire Luchette's \u003ci\u003eSwans \u003c\/i\u003eis a story of self-invention, disarming connection, little-known history, winding roads, and rewriting the future.","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54576738173294,"sku":"9780374618711","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/1007\/0382\/files\/imageloader_bb624abc-667d-4845-a23a-d4f1079dcda3.jpg?v=1786805386","url":"https:\/\/tenderbuttonsbooks.com\/products\/swans","provider":"Tender Buttons Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}