{"product_id":"maps-of-our-spectacular-bodies-1","title":"Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies","description":"\u003ch1\u003eMaps of Our Spectacular Bodies\u003c\/h1\u003eMaddie Mortimer\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Scribner\u003cbr\u003eJune 28 2022\u003cbr\u003eEAN: 9781982181772\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 198218177X\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eItems marked as \u003cb\u003eWAREHOUSE\u003c\/b\u003e may take additional time to be delivered to your address or picked up in the store.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSynopsis: \u003cb\u003eA Jen Hatmaker Book Club Pick\u003cb\u003e - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2022 by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Booker Prize - Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize - Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize - Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize - Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Prize \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003eThis lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman's life--told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia's past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia's youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia's body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePivoting between the domestic and the epic, the comic and the heart-breaking, this astonishing novel unearths the darkness and levity of one woman's life to symphonic effect.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"27th Letter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67390682955821,"sku":"WHS-7b36348b838e4a0d8432874bdfa17b97","price":18.98,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0673\/3588\/0749\/files\/original_f805ed21-084f-4b1c-9da6-07aaafe2ff4b.jpg?v=1787346137","url":"https:\/\/27thletterbooks.com\/products\/maps-of-our-spectacular-bodies-1","provider":"27th Letter Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}