{"product_id":"2940170059119","title":"Faerie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel for young people, is the fierce yet gently unfolding story of a hyperimaginative girl who is on a collision course to womanhood. She likens herself to a half-human fairy creature who does not belong in the earthly world; but in the cold light of day, she is a psychiatric patient at a hospital where she is being treated for anorexia - her sickness driven by the irrational need to undo nature and thwart the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLila tells the story of how she ended up on the Four East wing. We flash back to her childhood in the '80s, growing up in a small town as an overweight brown kid of Punjabi immigrant parents: her father, a literary scholar whom she idolizes; and her mother, a housewife - the most female of all females who found comfort in cooking. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e weaves these passages with Lila's downward spiral into life-threatening illness, her budding sexuality, and her complicated recovery in hospital that comes with a price. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with candor and heartbreaking lyricism, \u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e is a plaintive love letter to the bold, flawed splendor that is childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47115001659632,"sku":"2940170059119","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170059119_p0.jpg?v=1763700880","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170059119","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}