{"product_id":"9780061719783","title":"Son of a Witch (Wicked Years Series #2)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe long-anticipated sequel to the beloved and hugely successful novel  Wicked, now Broadway's #1 smash hit musical   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a Witch dies-not as a crone, withered and incapable, but as a woman in   her prime, at the height of her passion and prowess-too much is left unsaid.   What might have happened had Elphaba lived? Of her campaigns in defense of the   Animals, of her appetite for justice, of her talent for magic itself, what good   might have come? If every death is a tragedy, the death of a woman in her prime   keenly bereaves the whole world. Ten years after the publication of Wicked,   bestselling novelist Gregory Maguire returns to the land of Oz to follow the   story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when   Dorothy did in the Witch.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eA decade after the Witch has melted away, the young man Liir is discovered   bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully. Shattered in spirit as well as   in form, he is tended by the mysterious Candle, a\u003cbr\u003efoundling in her own right,   until failed campaigns of his childhood bear late, unexpected fruit. \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eLiir is only one part of the world that Elphaba left behind. As a boy hardly   in his teens, he is asked to help the needy in ways in which he may be   unskilled. Is he Elphaba's son? Has he power of his own? Can he\u003cbr\u003eliberate   Princess Nastoya into a dignified death? Can he locate his supposed half-sister,   Nor, last seen in shackles in the Wizard's protection? Can he survive in an Oz   little improved since the death of the Wicked Witch of the West? Can he learn to   fly?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn Son of a Witch, Gregory Maguire suggests that the magic we locate in   distant, improbable places like Oz is no greater than the magic inherent in any   hard life lived fully, son of a witch or no. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47046169002224,"sku":"9780061719783","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780061719783_p0.jpg?v=1763620982","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780061719783","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}