{"product_id":"9781646054152","title":"The Invisible Years","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e“It’s impossible to get a single\nanswer from the past. It’s not a key to anything. It’s just a place we go to\ntrick ourselves.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAndrea and Julián haven’t seen one\nanother in twenty-one years—not since that tragic, fateful night their senior\nyear of high school that marked their group of friends forever. A shocking\nphone call brings the two together again in Houston, where they begin to unravel\nthe truth of that year, picking open long scabbed-over wounds from their\nupper-class adolescence in 1990s Bolivia and the scandal that ripped them apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA writer unhappy in his career and\nhis marriage, Julián has been novelizing the past for his next book, trying to\nmake meaning out of the events that changed the course of their lives forever. “I’d\nthought that writing about that time would free me, relieve the burden of the\ninvisible years,” he writes, “but often it seems that it’s done the reverse.\u003c\/span\u003e”\nJuxtaposing the naïve invincibility of adolescence with the grasping uncertainties\nof adulthood, \u003ci\u003eThe Invisible Years\u003c\/i\u003e deftly weaves a coming-of-age tale that\nleaves the reader hanging on every word, even as they know how the cards fall\nin the end.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rodrigo Hasbún","offers":[{"title":"Deep Vellum |  Hardback | Cloth over boards |  2026-03-06","offer_id":47350569730303,"sku":"9781646054152","price":40.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_7fbfe99a-d790-4608-bcb1-dda38e6523e6.jpg?v=1760457011","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781646054152","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}