{"product_id":"faerie","title":"Faerie","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold YA novel about a South Asian teenager struggling with anorexia.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eJust days before her eighteenth birthday, Lila has resolved to end her life. The horror of becoming an adult, and leaving her childhood behind, has broken her heart.\u003c\/p\u003e \r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e, a novel for young people, is the fierce yet gently unfolding story of a hyper- imaginative girl who is on a collision course to womanhood. She likens herself to a half-human fairy creature who does not belong in the earthly world; but in the cold light of day she is a psychiatric patient at a hospital, where she is being treated for anorexia--her sickness driven by the irrational need to undo nature and thwart the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eLila tells the story of how she ended up on the Four East wing: we flashback to her childhood in the '80s, growing up in a small town as an overweight brown kid of Punjabi immigrant parents: her father, a literary scholar whom she idolizes, and her mother, a housewife--\"the most female of all females who found comfort in cooking.\" \u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e weaves these passages with Lila's downward spiral into life-threatening illness, her budding sexuality, and her complicated recovery in hospital that comes with a price. Written with candour and heartbreaking lyricism, \u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e is a plaintive love letter to the bold, flawed splendour that is childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003ci\u003eMy mother saw herself in me, but I wanted to hold up a very different mirror. I was going to slim myself into my wings and take a leap of faith into the faerie world where I spent every waking daydream. The circumstances were ripe, summer was on its way, and no time like yesterday to start something new. Or shall I say, to recover something old.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Eisha Marjara (CA)","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":44733305717029,"sku":"9781551526188","price":14.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0727\/7851\/4725\/products\/BNCImageAPI_2069e4f6-916e-448f-8141-49e0516621cc.jpg?v=1679346620","url":"https:\/\/crossandcrows.myshopify.com\/products\/faerie","provider":"Cross \u0026 Crows Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}