{"product_id":"2940169122770","title":"Norma: A novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the internationally best-selling author of \u003ci\u003ePurge\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhen the Doves Disappeared,\u003c\/i\u003e a spellbinding new novel set in present-day Helsinki, about a young woman with a fantastical secret who is trying to solve the mystery of her mother's death.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Anita Naakka jumps in front of an oncoming train, her daughter, Norma, is left alone with the secret they have spent their lives hiding: Norma has supernatural hair, sensitive to the slightest changes in her mood--and the moods of those around her--moving of its own accord, corkscrewing when danger is near. And so it is her hair that alerts her, while she talks with a strange man at her mother's funeral, that her mother may not have taken her own life. Setting out to reconstruct Anita's final months--sifting through puzzling cell phone records, bank statements, video files--Norma begins to realize that her mother knew more about her hair's powers than she let on: a sinister truth beyond Norma's imagining. As Sofi Oksanen leads us ever more deeply into Norma's world, weaving together past and present, she gives us a dark family drama that is a searing portrait of both the exploitation of women's bodies and the extremes to which people will go for the sake of beauty.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162136953072,"sku":"2940169122770","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169122770_p0.jpg?v=1769893974","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169122770","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}