{"product_id":"9781551526188","title":"Faerie","description":"\u003cp\u003eJust days before her eighteenth birthday, Lila has resolved to end her life. The horror of becoming an adult, and leaving her childhood behind, has broken her heart.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e , a novel for young people, is the fierce yet gently unfolding story of a hyper- imaginative girl who is on a collision course to womanhood. She likens herself to a half-human fairy creature who does not belong in the earthly world; but in the cold light of day she is a psychiatric patient at a hospital, where she is being treated for anorexia - her sickness driven by the irrational need to undo nature and thwart the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLila tells the story of how she ended up on the Four East wing: we flash back to her childhood in the eighties, growing up in a small town as the overweight brown kid of Punjabi immigrant parents: her father, a literary scholar whom she idolizes, and her mother, a housewife - \"the most female of all females who found comfort in cooking.\" \u003ci\u003eFaerie \u003c\/i\u003e weaves these passages with Lila's downward spiral into life-threatening illness, her budding sexuality, and her complicated recovery in hospital that comes with a price. Written with candor and heartbreaking lyricism, \u003ci\u003eFaerie \u003c\/i\u003e is a plaintive yet ultimately life-affirming love letter to the bold, flawed splendor that is childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eEisha Marjara \u003c\/b\u003e has written and directed several award-winning films, including the critically acclaimed NFB docudrama \u003ci\u003eDesperately Seeking Helen\u003c\/i\u003e . Her latest, \u003ci\u003eHouse for Sale\u003c\/i\u003e , has won numerous film festival awards. \u003ci\u003eFaerie \u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel. She lives in Montreal, Quebec.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061976645872,"sku":"9781551526188","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781551526188_p0.jpg?v=1763753221","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781551526188","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}