{"product_id":"the-brightness","title":"Chad Harbach: The Brightness [2026]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e            \u003cstrong\u003eThe acclaimed author of \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Fielding\u003c\/em\u003e returns with a long-awaited, immersive new novel. \u003cem\u003eThe Brightness\u003c\/em\u003e follows the electric, chaotic, everything-can-happen lives of Pella Affenlight and her best friend, Irma, as they fumble their way into a larger world that won't stop changing.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eAt 27, Pella's life looks settled: she's a recent college graduate, engaged to Mike, her longtime boyfriend, and helping her friend Owen pull off his own destination wedding on Block Island. But over that wild wedding weekend, Pella's past and present collide spectacularly, blowing up her plans and sending her spiralling toward an unplanned future in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eThere, in a city that's equal parts glittering opportunity and cutthroat grit, Pella is forced to see herself in constantly changing lights as she wrestles with who she is and what she will become. As she cycles through possibilities and identities - is she an artist? A bartender? A scholar, a lover, a wife? - Pella navigates the heights and depths of passion and ambition, and the incalculable wages of love and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eIn stunning scenes and spectacular characters, Chad Harbach captures that specific, shimmering anxiety of your twenties when life still feels wide open, even as hard and irreversible choices start closing in. Energetic, funny, and deeply human, this much-anticipated follow-up to \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Fielding\u003c\/em\u003e confirms Chad Harbach as one of the most accomplished and perceptive writers of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harbach, Chad","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53625525043539,"sku":"9780008536879","price":17.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/harbach-chad-chad-harbach-the-brightness-2026-9780008536879-1235115171.jpg?v=1777759300","url":"https:\/\/chaptersbookstore.com\/products\/the-brightness","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}