{"product_id":"9781936787555","title":"Montpelier Parade","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[An] accomplished debut. . . . The novel is narrated entirely in the second person, a stylistic choice that produces moments of intense intimacy.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Geary enters the literary arena with a bang: this debut about an unconventional love affair between a teenage boy and an older woman is unassuming but gorgeously rendered.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cbr\u003e starred and boxed review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMontpelier Parade is just across town, but to Sonny it might as well be a different world. Working with his father in the garden of one of its handsome homes one Saturday, he sees a back door easing open and a beautiful woman coming down the path toward him. This is Vera, the sort of person who seems destined to remain forever out of his reach.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Hoping to cast off his loneliness and a restless sense of not belonging—at high school, in his part-time job at the butcher shop, and in the increasingly suffocating company of his own family—Sonny drifts into dreams of a different kind of life. A series of intoxicating encounters with Vera lead him to feel he has fallen in love for the first time, but why does her past seem as unknowable as her future?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnfolding over a bright, rain-soaked Dublin spring, \u003ci\u003eMontpelier Parade\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich, devastating debut novel about desire, grief, ambition, art, and the choices we must make alone.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Catapult","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039717212400,"sku":"9781936787555","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781936787555_p0.jpg?v=1763660489","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781936787555","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}