{"product_id":"gingko-season-a-novel","title":"Gingko Season: A Novel","description":"One of TIME's 100 Must-Read Books of 2025\nOne of the New York Public Library's Best Books of 2025 So Far\n\nFor readers of Elif Batuman and Sally Rooney, a beguiling debut novel about finding oneself after heartbreak.\nAfter suffering her first big heartbreak two years earlier, Penelope Lin has built a quiet life with no romantic entanglements. She spends her days cataloging a museum’s vast collection of Qing Dynasty bound-foot shoes and in the comfortable company of close friends. One day, she happens to meet Hoang, who confesses to releasing mice from the cancer research lab where he works. Hoang’s openness catches Penelope off guard; from then on, she finds her carefully constructed life slowly start to unravel. Told in Penelope’s witty, vulnerable, and thoroughly endearing voice, Gingko Season captures three seasons of reawakening, challenges, and transformation.\nThis wise and tenderhearted novel explores the nature of our deepest friendships as seriously as it does the dizzying terror and thrill of falling in love, and the complications of trying to live a life that matches your ideals.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 1324086149\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: DBV.1324086149.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Xu Elegant, Naomi\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Pages are clean with no markings. May show minor signs of wear or cosmetic defects  marks, cuts, bends, or scuffs  on the cover, spine, pages, or dust jacket. May have remainder marks on edges.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Dream Books Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41516541083706,"sku":"DBV.1324086149.VG","price":7.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/6011\/0138\/files\/1324086149-0.jpg?v=1783741562","url":"https:\/\/shop.dreambooksco.com\/products\/gingko-season-a-novel","provider":"Dream Books Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}