{"product_id":"the-bitch","title":"The Bitch","description":"\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN TRANSLATION \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A perfect book.\" --Kiran Desai, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Unforgettable. . . a powerful, jolting tale about class, motherhood and rage.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this intense, spare, brilliantly observed novel, a woman's dangerously primal feelings are awakened when she adopts an orphaned puppy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn a bluff overlooking Colombia's rough Pacific coast, at the edge of the jungle--a world where nothing is taken for granted -Damaris lives in a shack with her fisherman husband. Her dream of a child unfulfilled and the warmth of her marriage cooled, she has reached the age \"when women dry up,\" as her uncle puts it. When the opportunity arises, she takes in a motherless puppy with eagerness and immediate affection. She does not yet know the risk she is taking in forging a bond that touches her most painful losses and her tenderest yearnings. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn prose as terse as the villagers Damaris lives among, \u003ci\u003eThe Bitch\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the double-edged force of the instinct to nurture and the desperate desire to be nurtured in turn.","brand":"Riverhead Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45787017314351,"sku":"9798217434749","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/2855\/6847\/files\/imageloader_9777603a-532e-4314-bd4a-9b6b2b696b8e.jpg?v=1786145261","url":"https:\/\/tssbooks.com\/products\/the-bitch","provider":"tssbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}