{"product_id":"jackie","title":"Jackie","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this mesmerizing novel about Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, acclaimed author Dawn Tripp has crafted an intimate story of love and power, family and tragedy, loss and reinvention.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A brilliant, beautiful book [that] touches the soul.\"--Chris Bohjalian, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Princess of Las Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe world has divided my life into three: \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife with Jack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife with Onassis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLife as a woman who goes to work because she wants to.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy life is all of these things, and it is none of these things. They continue to miss what's right in front of them. I love books. I love the sea. I love horses. Children. Art. Ideas. History. Beauty. Because beauty blows us open to wonder.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEven the beauty that breaks your heart\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eJackie\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a woman--deeply private with a nuanced, formidable intellect--who forged a legacy out of grief and shaped history even as she was living it. It is the story of a love affair, a complicated marriage, and the fracturing of identity that comes in the wake of unthinkable violence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Jackie meets the charismatic congressman Jack Kennedy in Georgetown, she is twenty-one and dreaming of France. She has won an internship at \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e. Kennedy, she thinks, is not her kind of adventure: \"Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy.\" Yet she is drawn to his mind, his humor, his drive. The chemistry between them ignites. During the White House years, the love between two independent people deepens. Then, a motorcade in Dallas: \"Three and a half seconds--that's all it was--a slivered instant between the first shot, which missed the car, and the second, which did not. . . . A hypnotic burst of sunlight off her bracelet as she waved.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis vivid, exquisitely written novel is at once a captivating work of the imagination and a window into the world of a woman who led many lives: Jackie, Jacks, Jacqueline, Miss Bouvier, Mrs. Kennedy, Jackie O.","brand":"Random House Trade","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661229130018,"sku":"9780812987089","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/8637\/3154\/files\/imageloader_2b08726b-a735-4559-945f-eaabf487797a.jpg?v=1779452182","url":"https:\/\/godmothers.com\/products\/jackie","provider":"Godmothers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}