{"product_id":"tear","title":"Tear","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2023 KOBO EMERGING WRITER PRIZE FOR LITERARY FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2022\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e49TH STREET EDITOR'S PICK FOR SEPTEMBER 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA reclamation of\nfemale rage and a horrifyingly deformed Bildungsroman.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrances is quiet and reclusive,\nso much so that her upstairs roommates sometimes forget she exists. Isolated in\nthe basement, and on the brink of graduating from university, Frances herself\nstarts to question the realities of her own existence. She can’t remember there\nbeing a lock on the door at the top of the basement stairs—and yet, when she\nturns the knob, the door won’t open. She can’t tell the difference between her\nchildhood memories, which bloom like flowers in the dark basement, and her\ndreams. Worse still, she can’t ignore the very real tapping sound now\ncoming—insistently, violently—threatening to break through her bedroom wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith the thematic considerations of Mary Shelley and Shirley Jackson’s work, and in the style of Herta Müller and Daisy Johnson, \u003ci\u003eTear\u003c\/i\u003e is both a horrifyingly deformed Bildungsroman and a bristling reclamation of female rage. Blurring the real and the imagined, this lyric debut novel unflinchingly engages with contemporary feminist issues and explores the detrimental effects of false narratives, gaslighting, and manipulation on young women.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Invisible Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47673573212504,"sku":"9781778430060","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781778430060.jpg?v=1770714053","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/tear","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}