{"product_id":"maps-of-our-spectacular-bodies-9781982181772","title":"Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies","description":"\u003cb\u003eNamed a Best Book of 2022 by \u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLonglisted for the Booker Prize - Winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize - Shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize - Longlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize - Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Prize \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and death, and a kaleidoscopic journey through one woman's life--told in part by the malevolent voice of her disease.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLia, her husband Harry, and their beloved daughter, Iris, are a precisely balanced family of three. With Iris struggling to navigate the social tightrope of early adolescence, their tender home is a much-needed refuge. But when a sudden diagnosis threatens to derail each of their lives, the secrets of Lia's past come rushing into the present, and the world around them begins to transform. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDeftly guided through time, we discover the people who shaped Lia's youth; from her deeply religious mother to her troubled first love. In turn, each will take their place in the shifting landscape of Lia's body; at the center of which dances a gleeful narrator, learning her life from the inside, growing more emboldened by the day. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePivoting between the domestic and the epic, the comic and the heart-breaking, this astonishing novel unearths the darkness and levity of one woman's life to symphonic effect.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaddie Mortimer was born in 1996. She received her BA in English literature from the University of Bristol. She lives in London, where she works as a screenwriter and an author. \u003ci\u003eMaps of Our Spectacular Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e is her first novel.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627791651090,"sku":"9781982181772","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_753bc8cb-c846-4eaa-80f8-22f4b53de767.jpg?v=1732721062","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/maps-of-our-spectacular-bodies-9781982181772","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}