{"product_id":"chosen-family","title":"Chosen Family","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exuberant and irreverently funny novel about one gorgeously messy friendship-feud-unrequited-love-affair set in Sydney across eighteen years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls' high school during their first year there, both their lives are changed forever. From school, to university, to careers, Nell and Eve's relationship is a life raft that is also a poison apple that is also a Medusan stare, frozen in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the passion, guilt, shame, and joy that perpetually twists and turns between them finally implodes, Nell abruptly walks away, leaving Eve alone at the helm of the gloriously unorthodox family they've built with their seven-year-old daughter, Lake. Eve finds herself left wondering: Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what's going on in someone else's head? And what's love got to do, got to do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with Gray's characteristic big-heartedness and dark wit, \u003ci\u003eChosen Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a queer modern classic that reminds us again and again that sometimes the most fulfilling and life-saving relationships are the ones that are the hardest to define.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Madeleine Gray","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47613186179308,"sku":"9780063485709","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780063485709.jpg?v=1778290302","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/chosen-family","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}