{"product_id":"2940169470321","title":"The Air You Breathe: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe story of an intense female friendship fueled by affection, envy and prideamp;mdash;and each woman's fear that she would be nothing without the other.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome friendships, like romance, have the feeling of fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSkinny, nine-year-old orphaned Dores is working in the kitchen of a sugar plantation in 1930s Brazil when in walks a girl who changes everything. Graça, the spoiled daughter of a wealthy sugar baron, is clever, well fed, pretty, and thrillingly ill behaved. Born to wildly different worlds, Dores and Graça quickly bond over shared mischief, and then, on a deeper level, over music.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne has a voice like a songbird; the other feels melodies in her soul and composes lyrics to match. Music will become their shared passion, the source of their partnership and their rivalry, and for each, the only way out of the life to which each was born. But only one of the two is destined to be a star. Their intimate, volatile bond will determine each of their fortunesamp;mdash;and haunt their memories.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTraveling from Brazil's inland sugar plantations to the rowdy streets of Rio de Janeiro's famous Lapa neighborhood, from Los Angeles during the Golden Age of Hollywood back to the irresistible drumbeat of home, \u003ci\u003eThe Air You Breathe\u003c\/i\u003e unfurls a moving portrait of a lifelong friendshipamp;mdash;its unparalleled rewards and lasting lossesamp;mdash;and considers what we owe to the relationships that shape our lives.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47162219266288,"sku":"2940169470321","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169470321_p0.jpg?v=1763683515","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169470321","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}