{"product_id":"maidenhead-9781552452592","title":"Maidenhead","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the The Believer Book Award (2012)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Trillium Book Award (2013)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e'\u003ci\u003eMaidenhead\u003c\/i\u003e is a mesmerizing and important novel, lying somewhere between the wilds of Judy Blume, \u003ci\u003eGirls Gone Wild\u003c\/i\u003e, and Michel Foucault. It's a thrilling, brilliant, and really hot place to be.' -- Sheila Heti, \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a mangy beach in Key West, sixteen-year-old Myra meets Elijah, a Tanzanian musician twice her age. Trapped on a Spring Break family vacation, Myra longs to lose her virginity to Elijah, and is shocked to learn he lives with Gayl, a secretive, violent woman with a strange power over him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Myra and her splitting-up family return home, she falls in with a pot-smoking anarchist crowd. But when Gayl and Elijah follow her north, she walks willingly into their world, engaging in more and more abject sexual games.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Myra enters unfamiliar worlds of sex, porn, race and class, she explores territories unknown in herself. \u003ci\u003eMaidenhead\u003c\/i\u003e traverses the desperate, wild spaces of a teenage girl's self-consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTamara Faith Berger was born in Toronto. She wrote porn stories for a living and attempted to make dirty films before publishing her first book, \u003ci\u003eLie with Me\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1999. In 2001, \u003ci\u003eThe Way of the Whore\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eA Woman Alone at Night\u003c\/i\u003e in the U.S.), her second book, was published. In 2004, \u003ci\u003eLie with Me\u003c\/i\u003e was made into a film. \u003ci\u003eMaidenhead\u003c\/i\u003e is her third book.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Coach House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50356218626322,"sku":"9781552452592","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5966e2a6-ea41-44ce-a122-0e0e0f30cf08.jpg?v=1728307688","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/maidenhead-9781552452592","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}