{"product_id":"9781620540060","title":"Sea of Hooks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA boy grew up beside a sea of hooks and he learned to swim in that sea and to notice the hooks as they rose and fell and twisted in the tides…\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eWhat if you saw the world—with all its signs and signals, its schedules and habits and goals, the matrix of friends, the unspoken codes of conduct—emptied of ordinary meaning?\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eImagine that the debris collected from the streets of your childhood spoke more urgently to you, with messages and wonders that compelled you to enter another world, a world whose broken pieces converged at the junctures of vision and illusion, of life and death.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eIn this wise and beautiful novel, the reader follows Christopher Westall, an alarmingly imaginative young man, through repeated trauma and transformation, on a journey from San Francisco to Bhutan.  His shattered life is woven from a thousand shards, hints, signs and tangled threads that are pursued and gathered toward its reassembly.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAs memory, dream, fear and resilience exert their tidal pulls, Christopher's life tilts, collides, reverses, dissolves and reemerges, while risks and revelations glisten side-by-side in the depths of the \u003ci\u003eSea of Hooks.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"McPherson \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47050450698480,"sku":"9781620540060","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620540060_p0.jpg?v=1763858798","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620540060","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}