{"product_id":"2940170843695","title":"Like Normal People","description":"\u003cp\u003eA tour de force of literary craft and emotional resonance, Like Normal People charts a family constellation that revolves around an off-kilter center: Lena, who is 48 but mentally locked in childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving deftly between present and past, the novel follows Lena's day-long escape from her residential home with her troubled 12-year-old niece. While this odd couple takes refuge on a honky-tonk southern California beach, Lena's widowed mother, Ella, goes in search of them. In the process, Ella relives her own life's dreams and disappointments: her marriage to a sweet, loving shoe salesman; her discovery of Lena's handicap and her aching attempts to give her daughter a \"normal\" childhood. For so long, Lena has been the focus of Ella's world. When Lena at last finds approximate normalcy - by marrying a man much like herself - Ella must contend with letting her daughter go. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCovering three entire lifetimes in the course of one day, \u003ci\u003eLike Normal People\u003c\/i\u003e is tender, often hilarious, and deeply moving. Bender brilliantly enters into the consciousness of three women at very different stages of life, each on a private search for love and acceptance. \u003ci\u003eLike Normal People\u003c\/i\u003e is a novel about desire, about what constitutes normality, and, most poignantly, about the ways in which a family finds its strength in the face of adversity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Recorded Books, LLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47098553401584,"sku":"2940170843695","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170843695_p0.jpg?v=1763719563","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170843695","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}