{"product_id":"2940169263770","title":"Save Yourself: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA gripping novel full of suspense and pathos that Dennis Lehane calls an \"electrifying, tomahawk missile of a thriller.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatrick Cusimano's life can't get much worse. His father is in jail, he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store, and his brother's girlfriend, Caro, has pushed their friendship to an uncomfortable new level.  On top of all that, he can't shake the attentions of Layla Elshere, a goth teenager who befriends Patrick for reasons he doesn't understand, and doesn't fully trust. The temptations these two women offer are pushing Patrick to his breaking point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMeanwhile, Layla's little sister, Verna, is suffering through her first year of high school.  She's become a prime target for her cruel classmates, and not just because of her strange name and her fundamentalist parents. Layla's bad-girl rep casts a shadow too heavy for Verna to bear alone, so she falls in with her sister's tribe of outcasts. But their world is far darker than she ever imagined¿\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnless Patrick, Layla, Caro, and Verna can forge their own twisted paths to peace-with themselves, with each other-then they're stuck on a dangerous collision course where the stakes couldn't be higher.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKelly Braffet has written a novel of unnerving power\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003edarkly compelling, compulsively addictive, and shockingly honest.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156555907312,"sku":"2940169263770","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169263770_p0.jpg?v=1763677464","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169263770","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}