{"product_id":"parakeet-book-marie-helene-bertino-9781250798510","title":"Parakeet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEDITORS' CHOICE AT \u003ci\u003eTHE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 CARNEGIE MEDAL and the Joyce Carol Oates Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"Miraculous: spry and mordant, with sentences that lull you with their rhythms, then twist suddenly and sting.\" --Lauren Groff, author of \u003ci\u003eFlorida\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"A twisting, strange delight, \u003ci\u003eParakeet\u003c\/i\u003e shimmers a soft and generous light on the darkest of a woman's innermost thoughts.\" --\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eKristen Iversen, \u003ci\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003e2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas\u003c\/i\u003e Marie-Helene Bertino's \u003ci\u003eParakeet\u003c\/i\u003e is a darkly funny and warm-hearted novel about a young woman whose dead grandmother (in the form of a parakeet) warns her not to marry and sends her out to find an estranged loved one.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The week of her wedding, The Bride is visited by a bird she recognizes as her dead grandmother because of the cornflower blue line beneath her eyes, her dubious expression, and the way she asks: \u003ci\u003eWhat is the Internet?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Her grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says: \u003ci\u003eGo and find your brother.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In the days that follow, The Bride's march to the altar becomes a wild and increasingly fragmented, unstable journey that bends toward the surreal and forces her to confront matters long buried.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e A novel that does justice to the hectic confusion of becoming a woman today, \u003ci\u003eParakeet\u003c\/i\u003e asks and begins to answer the essential questions. How do our memories make, cage, and free us? How do we honor our experiences and still become our strongest, truest selves? Who are we responsible for, what do we owe them, and how do we allow them to change?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Urgent, strange, warm-hearted, and sly, \u003ci\u003eParakeet\u003c\/i\u003e is ribboned with joy, fear, and an inextricable thread of real love. It is a startling, unforgettable, life-embracing exploration of self and connection.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Best Book of 2020 at \u003ci\u003eLit Hub, Electric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Best Book of Summer at \u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRefinery29,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eYahoo! Life,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlma\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSubway Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLit Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Best Book of the Month at \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHello Giggles\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePopSugar\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49561408143633,"sku":"GOR012182251","price":12.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50022867665169,"sku":"CIN1250798515G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50378404823313,"sku":"CIN1250798515A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51021928202513,"sku":"NIN9781250798510","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51701730083089,"sku":"CIN1250798515VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250798515.jpg?v=1750792651","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/products\/parakeet-book-marie-helene-bertino-9781250798510","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}