{"product_id":"we-can-only-save-ourselves-9780062996145","title":"We Can Only Save Ourselves","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWith echoes of \u003cem\u003eThe Virgin Suicides \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Fates Will Find Their Way\u003c\/em\u003e, Alison Wisdom's debut novel is the story of one teenage girl's unlikely indoctrination and the reverberations in the tight-knit community she leaves behind.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Lange's neighbors are proud to know her--a high-achieving student, cheerleader, and all-around good citizen, she's a perfect emblem of their sunny neighborhood. The night before she's expected to be crowned Homecoming Queen, though, she commits an act of vandalism, then disappears, following a magnetic stranger named Wesley to a bungalow in another part of the state. There, he promises, Alice can be her true self, shedding the shackles of conformity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e At the bungalow, however, she learns that four other young women seeking enlightenment and adventure have already followed him there. Her new lifestyle is intoxicating at first, but as Wesley's demands on all of them increase, the house becomes a pressure cooker--until one day they reach the point of no return.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBack home, the story of Alice's disappearance and radicalization is framed by the first-person plural chorus of the mothers who knew her before, who worry about her, but also resent the tear she made in the fabric of their perfect world, one that exposes the question: Isn't suburbia a kind of cult unto itself?\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Combining the sharp social critique of Celeste Ng's \u003cem\u003eLittle Fires Everywhere \u003c\/em\u003ewith the elegiac beauty of Emma Cline's \u003cem\u003eThe Girls\u003c\/em\u003e, this is a fierce literary debut from a writer to watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Perennial\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780062996145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336","brand":"Alison Wisdom","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38213867700405,"sku":"9780062996145","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_5ba943e7-d64a-468a-b8d2-0c42b0fda90f.jpg?v=1610443166","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/we-can-only-save-ourselves-9780062996145","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}