{"product_id":"books-marilou-is-everywhere-by-sarah-elaine-smith","title":"Marilou is Everywhere","description":"Richly atmospheric and darkly unforgettable, an astonishing American debut about lost innocence and life on the ragged margins of society  'Lyrical, sexy, humane, and just a total pleasure to read' Elif Batuman, author of The Idiot   'Remarkable. Fiction debuts this accomplished don't come along very often... Smith is a writer of immense talent and rare imagination [and] this novel reads like a miracle' - NPR  'To be honest, we just weren't looking that hard. Nobody knew where to search and it was summer vacation anyway - but that wasn't the reason nobody looked for Jude.'  One summer, a teenager disappears from Deep Valley, Pennsylvania. Jude is beautiful, intelligent, and mixed race. The cops search for her - but not as hard as they would if she were a white girl. Watching this mystery unfold is Cindy, a younger girl from a white trash family, who has idolised Jude for years. And so, in the absence of anyone to give a damn about her, Cindy starts to slip out of her own life and into the space Jude left behind...  Marilou Is Everywhere is a story about the desperation to escape - and the terrible, intimate crimes we commit to do so. Swimming in the rich melancholia of rural America, it is a fall from grace, a moral provocation, and a heartbreaking account of life in the margins.","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53673520365841,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780241400975.jpg?v=1781526359","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/books-marilou-is-everywhere-by-sarah-elaine-smith","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}