{"product_id":"skin-game-a-memoir-9780312263935","title":"Skin Game: A Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003eCaroline Kettlewell's autobiography reveals a girl whose feelings of pain and alienation led her to seek relief in physically hurting herself, from age twelve into her twenties. \u003ci\u003eSkin Game\u003c\/i\u003e employs clear language and candid reflection to grant general readers as well as students an uncensored profile of a complex and unsettling disorder. \"[This] mesmeric memoir examines the obsession with cutting that is believed to afflict somewhere around two million Americans, nearly all of them female,\" Francine Prose noted in \u003ci\u003eElle\u003c\/i\u003e. \"[Kettlewell's] language soars and its intensity deepens whenever she is recalling the lost joys and the thrilling sensation of sharp steel against her tender skin.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCaroline Kettlewell \u003c\/b\u003egraduated from Williams College and hold a master's degree in writing from George Mason University. She and her husband live with their son in Virginia.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410171990290,"sku":"9780312263935","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7a059723-0325-4f03-a011-d220279f0713.jpg?v=1729302914","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/skin-game-a-memoir-9780312263935","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}