{"product_id":"9781468305517","title":"Island: A Novel","description":"\u003cb\u003eIn this “unsettling and resonant novel” by the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eMr. Wroe’s Virgins\u003c\/i\u003e, an orphan seeks revenge on her birth mother in rural Scotland (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichiko Kakutani\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Having spent her traumatic childhood in and out of foster homes, twenty-eight-year-old Nikki Black has decided to finally take control of her life. That begins with finding her birth mother, Phyllis: the woman who abandoned her as a newborn at a London post office.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e The plan is simple. She’ll find her mother, demand the answers she’s always needed, then exact her revenge. But when Nikki tracks Phyllis down on a remote island in the Scottish Hebrides, she also meets the brother she never knew she had.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Calum may be simple-minded, but he is full of stories—about his island home, and about Phyllis, the manipulative herbalist who keeps him under her thumb. As Nikki changes her plans to help Calum, all three of their lives begin to unravel in this “brooding, furiously powerful tale” inspired by Shakspeare’s \u003ci\u003eThe Tempest\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review).\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[A] caustically memorable literary shocker . . . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eFans of Ian McEwan should relish this stylish, charismatic addition to Britain’s gallery of antiheroes.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"ABRAMS, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47141477712112,"sku":"9781468305517","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781468305517_p0.jpg?v=1769892616","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781468305517","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}