{"product_id":"9780547541457","title":"The Life Before Her Eyes: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eA “hauntingly original” psychological thriller about innocence, memory, and the effect of a moment of violence (\u003ci\u003eO: The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the girls’ bathroom, Diana and her best friend, Maureen, are stealing a moment from the routine drudgery of high school when a classmate enters holding a gun. Suddenly, Diana sees her life—past, present, and acutely imagined future—dance before her eyes.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Through prose infused with the dramatically feminine sensuality of spring, readers will experience sixteen-year-old Diana’s uncertain steps into womanhood—her awkward, heated forays into sex; her fresh, fragile construction of an identity—and, in exhilarating detail, her life-not-lived as a doting mother and wife of forty. Together with the sights and sounds of renewal are the tasks of Diana’s adulthood: protecting her beloved daughter and holding on to her successful husband.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e This “poetic” novel encompasses both the truth of a teenager’s world and the transformations of midlife (\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e). Resonant and deeply stirring, \u003ci\u003eThe Life Before Her Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e finds piercing beauty in the midst of a nightmare that echoes like a dirge beneath each new spring, in a story that “takes on deep matters of life and death; conscience and consciousness; family, love and friendship” (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Evokes terror and redemption, shadows and light. Kasischke treads a delicate line with the precision and confidence of a tightrope walker. She reminds us to look hard at life, to notice its beauty and cruelty, even as it flashes before us and disappears.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Mesmerizing.” —\u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Houghton Mifflin Harcourt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113367945456,"sku":"9780547541457","price":11.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780547541457_p0.jpg?v=1769917014","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780547541457","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}