{"product_id":"girl-through-glass-9780062326287","title":"Girl Through Glass","description":"\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLong-listed for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn Amazon Best Book of the Month \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eBuzzfeed \u003c\/em\u003eMost Exciting Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/em\u003e Most Anticipated Book of the Year \u0026amp; Bestseller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSelected as a \u003cem\u003eSkimm\u003c\/em\u003e Read \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eRefinery 29\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChosen as a \u003cem\u003eRumpus\u003c\/em\u003e Book Club Selection\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChosen as a \u003cem\u003eBustle \u003c\/em\u003eBest Literary Debut Novel Written By Women in the Last 5 Years\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn enthralling literary debut that tells the story of a young girl's coming of age in the cutthroat world of New York City ballet--a story of obsession and the quest for perfection, trust and betrayal, beauty and lost innocence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the roiling summer of 1977, eleven-year-old Mira is an aspiring ballerina in the romantic, highly competitive world of New York City ballet. Enduring the mess of her parent's divorce, she finds escape in dance--the rigorous hours of practice, the exquisite beauty, the precision of movement, the obsessive perfectionism. Ballet offers her control, power, and the promise of glory. It also introduces her to forty-seven-year-old Maurice DuPont, a reclusive, charismatic balletomane who becomes her mentor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the course of three years, Mira is accepted into the prestigious School of American Ballet run by the legendary George Balanchine, and eventually becomes one of \"Mr. B's girls\"--a dancer of rare talent chosen for greatness. As she ascends higher in the ballet world, her relationship with Maurice intensifies, touching dark places within herself and sparking unexpected desires that will upend both their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the present day, Kate, a professor of dance at a Midwestern college, embarks on a risky affair with a student that threatens to obliterate her career and capsizes the new life she has painstakingly created for her reinvented self. When she receives a letter from a man she's long thought dead, Kate is hurled back into the dramas of a past she thought she had left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold in interweaving narratives that move between past and present, \u003cem\u003eGirl Through Glass\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the costs of ambition, secrets, and the desire for beauty, and reveals how the sacrifices we make for an ideal can destroy--or save--us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilson, Sari:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eSari Wilson trained as a dancer with the Harkness Ballet in New York and was on scholarship at Eliot Feld's New Ballet School. She was a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow of the Provincetown Fine Arts Center, and her fiction has appeared in \u003cem\u003eAgni\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eOxford American\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSlice\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThird Coast\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the cartoonist Josh Neufeld.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50491459272978,"sku":"9780062326287","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ee614b0b-4d43-4e29-9867-6a21d41c6bd2.jpg?v=1730541073","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/girl-through-glass-9780062326287","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}