{"product_id":"book-dob0","title":"Parakeet","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcclaimed author of \u003ci\u003e2 A.M. at the Cat's Pajamas \u003c\/i\u003eMarie-Helene Bertino's \u003ci\u003eParakeet \u003c\/i\u003eis 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\u003eThe 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\u003eHer grandmother is a parakeet. She says not to get married. She says:\u003ci\u003e Go and find your brother.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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\u003eA novel that does justice to the hectic confusion of becoming a woman today, \u003ci\u003eParakeet \u003c\/i\u003easks 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\u003eUrgent, strange, warm-hearted, and sly, \u003ci\u003eParakeet \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 Macmillan Audio produciton from Farrar, Straus and Giroux  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49369958383920,"sku":"BDdob0","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dob0-cover.jpg?v=1761000176","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dob0","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}