{"product_id":"the-slow-rise","title":"the slow Rise","description":"\u003cp\u003eNora Calloway drives to Millhaven, Tennessee with one intention: sell her grandmother's bakery, settle the debt, and go back to Nashville.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe stays because the starter isn't dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMae's Bakery has been on Cedar Street for thirty-five years. It has a ledger full of names, a sourdough culture older than Nora's career, and a loan in default that a development group called Provision is quietly using to assemble the entire block. Nora has thirty days to prove the building is a viable business — or lose it to people who want to keep the facade and gut everything behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCole Chambers shows up on day one with a toolbox and no explanation. He knows the building's every flaw. He knew Mae. He's been buying back his father's land acre by acre for twelve years, and the same people who want Nora's building want his ridge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey don't talk about that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThey talk about flour ratios and boiler pressure and whether the espresso machine can be saved. They work in the same kitchen for twenty days without naming what's building between them, because naming it would require stopping, and neither of them can stop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Slow Rise\u003c\/em\u003e is a novel about inheritance and stubbornness, about what it costs to stay in a place and what it means to keep something alive. It is a love story told in bread and ledger entries and the specific warmth of a man's hand on a cold prep table at midnight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome things rise slowly. They're worth the wait\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46804314128594,"sku":"af376122-927c-3f18-a9e3-997a17593119","price":4.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_77b959ff-ee60-4ff9-9661-0992a67439b8.jpg?v=1773716482","url":"https:\/\/iandigo.com\/products\/the-slow-rise","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}