{"product_id":"maps-of-our-spectacular-bodies-9781982181772","title":"Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman's life--told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia's past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia's youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia's body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePivoting between the domestic and the epic, the comic and the heart-breaking, this astonishing novel unearths the darkness and levity of one woman's life to symphonic effect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mortimer, Maddie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/28\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781982181772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.19h x 5.62w x 1.09d","brand":"Maddie Mortimer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39799883563083,"sku":"9781982181772","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0021\/1697\/6715\/products\/img_faf4afdc-5ab8-47e4-acd4-f8503e001b98.jpg?v=1657033062","url":"https:\/\/blackbookstore.com\/products\/maps-of-our-spectacular-bodies-9781982181772","provider":"Black Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}