{"product_id":"9781429932264","title":"The Island of Bicycle Dancers","description":"\u003cp\u003eLove, sex, death....and English as a foreign language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Island of Bicycle Dancers \u003c\/i\u003eis the coming-of-age-story of twenty-year-old Yurika Song, a Korean-Japanese woman who comes from Japan to New York City for a summer to work with her Korean relatives and improve her English. Yurika's friends back home have always joked that she is half-sushi\/half-kim-chi. But cross-Asian ethnicities turn out to be far less jarring than her introduction to New York life, the world of bicycle messengers and the street culture in which they thrive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn one level this is a splendid tale of mistaken love-Yurika falls hard for an attractive, but dangerous, Puerto Rican bicycle messenger nicknamed \"Bone.\" But on another, deeper level, our heroine finds freedom in this new language, which to her \"is like a huge octopus, very clever and sometimes hard to catch but with so many wild and beautiful writhing limbs.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154192711920,"sku":"9781429932264","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429932264_p0.jpg?v=1763747656","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429932264","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}