{"product_id":"9780544465053","title":"White Bird in a Blizzard","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe inspiration for the film of the same name, starring Shailene Woodley and Eva Green.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I am sixteen when my mother steps out of her skin one frozen January afternoon—pure self, atoms twinkling like microscopic diamond chips around her perhaps the chiming of a clock, or a few bright flute notes in the distance—and disappears. No one sees her leave, but she is gone.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Laura Kasischke's first novel. \u003ci\u003eSuspicious River\u003c\/i\u003e. was hailed by the critics as \"extremely powerful\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e), \"amazing\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e), and \"a novel of depth, beauty, and insight\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Seattle Times\u003c\/i\u003e). Now Kasischke follows up her auspicious debut with a spellbinding and erotic tale of marriage, secrets, and self-deception.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Katrina Connors' mother walks out on her family one frigid January day, Kat is surprised but not shocked; the whole year she has been \"becoming sixteen\"—falling in love with the boy next door, shedding her baby fat, discovering sex—her mother has slowly been withdrawing. As Kat and her father pick up the pieces of their daily life, she finds herself curiously unaffected by her mother's absence. But in dreams that become too real to ignore, she's haunted by her mother's cries for help. . . .\u003cbr\u003e Like \u003ci\u003eSuspicious River\u003c\/i\u003e, which \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e described as \"by turns terrifying and ravishingly lyrical,\" \u003ci\u003eWhite Bird in a Blizzard\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the works of Kathryn Harrison and Joyce Carol Oates—and confirms Kasischke's arrival as a major talent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123737936112,"sku":"9780544465053","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780544465053_p0.jpg?v=1769896187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780544465053","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}