{"product_id":"the-distance-between-us-by-masha-hamilton-9781932961140","title":"The Distance Between Us","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCaddie Blair feels everything strongly—and so she works hard to keep her distance. It's the ethical thing for a journalist to do, especially in a war-torn region like the Middle East. And Caddie wants to believe that nothing is as important as covering \u003cem\u003ethe story\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere's room for passion in her life—but that's only physical. Caddie keeps even those fleeting attachments under wraps, secretive, because she knows that when a journalist even appears to lose her detachment, she is already lost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo what is Caddie to feel when her lover dies beside her—shot in an ambush on the way to the next promising political interview, across the Israeli border into Lebanon?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn authentic look at the emotional and ethical chaos within a war correspondent who becomes a bit too involved, Masha Hamilton's \u003cem\u003eThe Distance Between Us\u003c\/em\u003e is a straight-ahead story of human passion—desire, conviction, and the guilt of a survivor—struggling for order within the frayed justice of the Middle East conflict.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA seasoned journalist herself, Masha Hamilton brings to this revealing novel the sharp eye and deep empathy that marked her debut, \u003cem\u003eStaircase of a Thousand Steps\u003c\/em\u003e (BlueHen, 2001). Beautifully turned, and peopled with an astounding cast of characters who are as true as they are perceptive, \u003cem\u003eThe Distance Between Us\u003c\/em\u003e is finally the portrait of one woman's search for the narrow pass between vengeance and emotional survival, when her only true attachment has been torn away from her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"If we knew where we were going to fall,\" the novel's most enigmatic character tells her, \"we could spread straw.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47599402483948,"sku":"9781932961140","price":34.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/7a237a332f6c66590e6d84a44c1b5392.jpg?v=1778023505","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/the-distance-between-us-by-masha-hamilton-9781932961140","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}