{"product_id":"book-dy65","title":"We Can Only Save Ourselves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Alison Wisdom's addictive, down-the-rabbit-hole debut reads like \u003cem\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/em\u003e by way of \u003cem\u003eThe Virgin Suicides\u003c\/em\u003e, with an extra dash of Cheever's unsettling suburbia. The result is sinister and surprising: a novel I couldn't put down, and one that I kept thinking about long after I'd reached its unexpected, chilling end.\" —Emily Temple, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Lightness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOne of \u003cem\u003eNewsweek,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Bustle, and LitHub's Most Anticipated Books and \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGoodreads' \"Debut Novels to Discover in 2021,\" \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Can Only Save Ourselves\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of one\u003cbr\u003eteenage girl’s unlikely indoctrination and the reverberations in the tight-knit\u003cbr\u003ecommunity she leaves behind.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Lange’s neighbors are proud to know her—a high-achieving\u003cbr\u003estudent, cheerleader, and all-around good citizen, she’s a perfect emblem of\u003cbr\u003etheir sunny neighborhood. The night before she’s expected to\u003cbr\u003ebe crowned Homecoming Queen, though, she commits an act of vandalism, then\u003cbr\u003edisappears, following a magnetic stranger named Wesley to a bungalow in another\u003cbr\u003epart of the state. There, he promises, Alice can be her true self, shedding the\u003cbr\u003eshackles of conformity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the bungalow, however, she learns\u003cbr\u003ethat four other young women seeking enlightenment and adventure have already\u003cbr\u003efollowed him there. Her new lifestyle is intoxicating at first, but as Wesley’s\u003cbr\u003edemands on all of them increase, the house becomes a pressure cooker—until one\u003cbr\u003eday they reach the point of no return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack home, the story of Alice’s\u003cbr\u003edisappearance and radicalization is framed by the first-person plural chorus of\u003cbr\u003ethe mothers who knew her before, who worry about her, but also resent the tear\u003cbr\u003eshe made in the fabric of their perfect world, one that exposes the question: Isn’t\u003cbr\u003esuburbia a kind of cult unto itself?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCombining the sharp social\u003cbr\u003ecritique of Celeste Ng’s \u003cem\u003eLittle Fires Everywhere \u003c\/em\u003ewith the elegiac beauty\u003cbr\u003eof Emma Cline’s \u003cem\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a fierce literary debut from a writer\u003cbr\u003eto watch.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49344243564848,"sku":"BDdy65","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49344243630384,"sku":"ZEdy65","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49344243663152,"sku":"ZMdy65","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/dy65-Square-cover.jpg?v=1779304861","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dy65","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}