{"product_id":"9780374711351","title":"Abroad","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNot since Donna Tartt's \u003ci\u003eThe Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e has a novel this intoxicating captured the headiness and dark temptations of university life. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe old Etruscan city of Grifonia swarms with year-abroad students--thousands of them from all over. Ostensibly, they've come to study. But really they are here to reinvent themselves, to shuck their identities and buck constraints far from the watchful eyes of parents and others who know them too well. There's a reason Henry James's young ladies went to Europe with chaperones. Today's young ladies don't.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     In \u003ci\u003eAbroad\u003c\/i\u003e, the bestselling novelist Katie Crouch--whose \u003ci\u003eGirls in Trucks\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly portrayed the cruelties of postcollege New York life on a Southern girl trying to make her way--tears a story from international headlines and transforms it into a page-turning parable of modern girlhood, full of longing and reckless behavior. As the heroine (and the reader) of \u003ci\u003eAbroad \u003c\/i\u003ewill soon discover, Grifonia is a city filled with dangerous secrets of many kinds: ancient, eternal, infernal.     \"Prepare to have your heart broken while laughing out loud at this breathtaking, scathingly sardonic novel,\" wrote \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e magazine's reviewer about Crouch's \u003ci\u003eMen and Dogs\u003c\/i\u003e. \"From her opening line. . . Crouch grabs you and never lets go.\" In \u003ci\u003eAbroad\u003c\/i\u003e, Crouch's mesmerizing talents are again on full display. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118486798576,"sku":"9780374711351","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374711351_p0.jpg?v=1769917148","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374711351","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}