{"product_id":"glorious-boy-9781597098892","title":"Glorious Boy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"A riveting amalgam of history, family epic, anticolonial\/antiwar treatise, cultural crossroads, and more, this latest from best-selling author Liu (Face) is a fascinating, irresistible marvel.\"--Terry Hong, STARRED \u003cem\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/em\u003e review\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Liu's prose is masterful. A good choice for book groups and for readers who are unafraid to be swept away.\"--\u003cstrong\u003e*Starred Booklist Review*\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"With a mesmerizing setting and transporting detail, Glorious Boy balances tropical beauty with raw, physical risk, and dives deep into grim truths about parental love and the power and limitation of language. This is a page-turner, sometimes violent but always revelatory. Readers won't easily forget the trials this young couple faces, or the landscape that changes them all.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eFive Star Review from \u003cem\u003eThe Seattle Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat will it take to save Ty?\u003c\/em\u003e This is the question that haunts Claire and Shep Durant in the wake of their four-year-old's disappearance. Until this moment, Port Blair's British surgeon and his young wife, a promising anthropologist, have led a charmed life in the colonial backwaters of India's Andaman Islands--thanks in part to Naila, a local girl who shares their mysteriously mute son's silent language. But with the war closing in and mandatory evacuation underway, the Durants don't realize until too late that Naila and Ty have vanished. While Claire sails for Calcutta, Shep stays to search for the children. Days later, the Japanese invade the Andamans, cutting off all communication. Fueled by guilt and anguish, Claire uses her unique knowledge of the islands' tribes to make herself indispensable to an all-male reconnaissance team headed back behind enemy lines. Her secret plan: rescue Shep and Ty. Through the brutal odyssey that follows, she'll discover truths about sacrifice that both shatter and transcend her understanding of devotion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLiu, Aimee:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAimee Liu\u003c\/strong\u003e is the bestselling author of the novels \u003cem\u003eFlash House\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCloud Mountain\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eFace\u003c\/em\u003e and the memoirs \u003cem\u003eGaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSolitaire\u003c\/em\u003e. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, published as a Literary Guild Super Release, and serialized in \u003cem\u003eGood Housekeeping\u003c\/em\u003e. She's received a Barnes \u0026amp; Noble Discover Great New Writers Award, a Bosque Fiction Prize, and special mention by the Pushcart Prize. Her essays have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, the\u003cem\u003e Los Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePoets \u0026amp; Writers\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other periodicals and anthologies. A past president of the national literary organization PEN Center USA, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Bennington College and is on the faculty of Goddard College's MFA in Creative Writing Program at Port Townsend, WA. She lives in Los Angeles. More at aimeeliu.net\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Red Hen Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50914190262546,"sku":"9781597098892","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_35c4f035-bbf4-4049-af8c-7b1f12d1807b.jpg?v=1738809169","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/glorious-boy-9781597098892","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}