{"product_id":"2940170327867","title":"The Perfect Mother: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA night outamp;mdash;a few hours of fun. What could possibly go wrong?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSome people are so good at making perfect look easy.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThey call themselves the May Mothersamp;mdash;a collection of new moms who gave birth in the same month. Twice a week, with strollers in tow, they get together in Prospect Park, seeking refuge from the isolation of new motherhood; sharing the fears, joys, and anxieties of their new child-centered lives.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the group's members agree to meet for drinks at a hip local bar, they have in mind a casual evening of fun, a brief break from their daily routine. But on this sultry Fourth of July night during the hottest summer in Brooklyn's history, something goes terrifyingly wrong: one of the babies is taken from his crib. Winnie, a single mom, was reluctant to leave six-week-old Midas with a babysitter, but the May Mothers insisted that everything would be fine. Now Midas is missing, the police are asking disturbing questions, and Winnie's very private life has become fodder for a ravenous media.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThough none of the other members in the group is close to the reserved Winnie, three of them will go to increasingly risky lengths to help her find her son. And as the police bungle the investigation and the media begin to scrutinize the mothers in the days after Midas goes missing, damaging secrets are exposed, marriages are tested, and friendships are formed and fractured. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfolding over the course of thirteen fraught days and culminating in an exquisite and unexpected twist, \u003cem\u003eThe Perfect Mother\u003c\/em\u003e is the perfect book for our timesamp;mdash;a nuanced and addictively readable story that exposes the truth of modern mothers' lives as it explores the power of an ideal that is based on a lie.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47117341753584,"sku":"2940170327867","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170327867_p0.jpg?v=1763737571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170327867","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}