{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6927a48ecaf6efa703dbae9e/69691c3917bb88de8df419fc?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"February Book Club: Thrity Umrigar, Missing Sam","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6927a48ecaf6efa703dbae9e/1768496070630-5050d6c5-476b-48c0-a8eb-9f43517c5ebb.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Announcing the February Gays Reading Book Club Pick...</p><p><br></p><p>⭐️ MISSING SAM&nbsp;by Thrity Umrigar, the bestselling author of&nbsp;HONOR</p><p><br></p><p>At first glance,&nbsp;MISSING SAM&nbsp;looks like a classic thriller: a woman goes missing after a morning run and her wife is left behind to search for answers. But very quickly, this&nbsp;book&nbsp;becomes something much deeper.&nbsp;The book is about what happens when grief collides with prejudice. About how quickly suspicion attaches itself to certain bodies. About love, marriage, and what it means to feel unsafe not just in the world, but inside your own community.</p><p><br></p><p>New to the club? Get your first book for just $1!</p><p><br></p><p>When you join the&nbsp;Gays&nbsp;Reading&nbsp;Book Club&nbsp;with Allstora, here’s what you get:</p><ul><li>A SIGNED copy of the book!</li><li>30% off everything on Allstora’s website</li><li>Access to our&nbsp;Book Club&nbsp;chat</li><li>Every subscription donates a children’s&nbsp;book&nbsp;to an LGBTQIA+ youth</li><li>A&nbsp;book club&nbsp;that&nbsp;exclusively supports LGBTQIA+ authors</li><li>And more along the way</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Thrity Umrigar </strong>is the bestselling author of nine previous novels, including&nbsp;<em>Honor</em>, which was a Reese’s Book Club Pick, as well as four picture books and a memoir. Her books have been published in over twenty countries and in several languages. A former journalist, she has contributed to the&nbsp;<em>Washington Post</em>, the&nbsp;<em>Boston Globe</em>, the&nbsp;<em>New York Times</em>, the&nbsp;<em>Cleveland Plain Dealer</em>&nbsp;and other newspapers.&nbsp;She is a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship to Harvard, and winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize, the Seth Rosenberg prize and a Lambda Literary award. She is currently a Distinguished University Professor of English at Case Western Reserve University.</p>","author_name":"Jason Blitman"}