{"product_id":"9781552452592","title":"Maidenhead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the The Believer Book Award (2012)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Trillium Book Award (2013)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e' \u003ci\u003eMaidenhead\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing and important novel, lying somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, \u003ci\u003eGirls Gone Wild\u003c\/i\u003e , and Michel Foucault. It's a thrilling, brilliant, and really hot place to be.' — Sheila Heti, \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a mangy beach in Key West, sixteen-year-old Myra meets Elijah, a Tanzanian musician twice her age. Trapped on a Spring Break family vacation, Myra longs to lose her virginity to Elijah, and is shocked to learn he lives with Gayl, a secretive, violent woman with a strange power over him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Myra and her splitting-up family return home, she falls in with a pot-smoking anarchist crowd. But when Gayl and Elijah follow her north, she walks willingly into their world, engaging in more and more abject sexual games.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Myra enters unfamiliar worlds of sex, porn, race and class, she explores territories unknown in herself. \u003ci\u003eMaidenhead\u003c\/i\u003e traverses the desperate, wild spaces of a teenage girl’s self-consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035461501168,"sku":"9781552452592","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781552452592_p0.jpg?v=1763752563","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781552452592","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}