{"product_id":"book-gx8p","title":"Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon. This queer YA reimagining of \u003ci\u003eThe Secret Garden\u003c\/i\u003e subverts the cishet and white status quo of the original in a tale of family secrets wonderful and horrifying.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Lennox didn’t think about death until the day it knocked politely on her bedroom door and invited itself in. When a terrible accident leaves her orphaned at fifteen, she is sent to the wilderness of the Georgian Bay to live with an uncle she's never met.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt first the impassive, calculating girl believes this new manor will be just like the one she left in Toronto: cold, isolating, and anything but cheerful, where staff is treated as staff and \u003ci\u003enever\u003c\/i\u003e like family. But as she slowly allows her heart to open like the first blooms of spring, Mary comes to find that this strange place and its strange people—most of whom are Indigenous—may be what she can finally call home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen one night Mary discovers Olive, her cousin who has been hidden away in an attic room for years due to a \"nervous condition.\" The girls become fast friends, and Mary wonders why this big-hearted girl is being kept out of sight and fed medicine that only makes her feel sicker. When Olive's domineering stepmother returns to the manor, it soon becomes clear that something sinister is going on.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the help of a charming, intoxicatingly vivacious Metis girl named Sophie, Mary begins digging further into family secrets both wonderful and horrifying to figure out how to free Olive. And some of the answers may lie within the walls of a hidden, overgrown and long-forgotten garden the girls stumble upon while wandering the wilds...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Remixed Classics Series\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix \u003c\/i\u003eby C.B. Lee\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSo Many Beginnings: A Little Women Remix \u003c\/i\u003eby Bethany C. Morrow\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTravelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix \u003c\/i\u003eby Aminah Mae Safi\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat Souls Are Made Of: A Wuthering Heights Remix \u003c\/i\u003eby Tasha Suri\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSelf-Made Boys: A Great Gatsby Remix \u003c\/i\u003eby Anna-Marie McLemore\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Dear Henry: A Jekyll \u0026amp; Hyde Remix \u003c\/i\u003eby Kalynn Bayron\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTeach the Torches to Burn: A Romeo \u0026amp; Juliet Remix \u003c\/i\u003eby Caleb Roehrig\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eInto the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix \u003c\/i\u003eby Cherie Dimaline\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMost Ardently: A Pride \u0026amp; Prejudice Remix \u003c\/i\u003eby Gabe Cole Novoa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA Macmillan Audio production from Feiwel \u0026amp; Friends.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Macmillan Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49353593553200,"sku":"BDgx8p","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/436290-gx8p-Square.jpg?v=1734350118","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-gx8p","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}