{"product_id":"swallowed-9781550655537","title":"Swallowed","description":"In 1966, R jean Ducharme, then a 24-year-old unknown, published \u003ci\u003eL'Aval e des aval s\u003c\/i\u003e, this debut novel that would go on to serve as a zeitgeist for several generations of French-Canadian readers. At nine years old, Berenice feels trapped by home, family, and dogmas both real and invented. Precocious and over-intelligent, she despises her dysfunctional parents too viciously, loves her brother Christian too passionately, and follows the logical pirouettes of her imagination to conclusions too dangerous. She lives on a secluded island, where she hatches plans to run away with Christian and escape her mother's needy overtures for affection. When on the cusp of puberty Berenice becomes too wild for even her parents to control, she's sent to live in New York with her father's ultra-religious relatives where, pushed to confine her impulses, she instead forces herself forward to new extremes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Esplanade Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781550655537\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 260","brand":"Madeleine Stratford, R\u0026#233;jean DuCharme","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39329964064949,"sku":"9781550655537","price":15.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_3c8a132b-42cd-4ea2-840c-780641d6c0d1.jpg?v=1614693094","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/swallowed-9781550655537","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}