{"product_id":"double-teenage-paperback","title":"Double Teenage - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoni Murphy\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouble Teenage\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Celine and Julie, two girls coming of age in the 1990s in a desert town close to the US-Mexico border. Starting from their shared love of theatre, the girls move into a wider world that shimmers with intellectual and artistic possibility, but at the same time, is dense with threat.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis unrelenting novel shines a spotlight on paradoxes of Western culture. It asks impossible questions about the media's obsession with sexual violence as it twins with a social unwillingness to look at real pain. It asks what it feels like to be a girl, simultaneously a being and a thing, feeling in a marketplace. Wherever they are--whether in a dance club in El Paso or an art lecture in Vancouver--these characters brush against maddening contradiction and concealed brutality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a portrait of the recent past, seen through the cloudy lens of now. Murphy traces the lives of friends struggling within self-destructive realities. Part bildungsroman, part performance, part passionate essay, part magic spell, \u003ci\u003eDouble Teenage\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately offers a way to see through violence into an emotionally alive place beyond the myriad traps of girlhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJONI MURPHY \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in New Mexico lives in New York. Her debut novel, \u003ci\u003eDouble Teenage\u003c\/i\u003e, was named one of \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e's 100 Best Books of 2016. Her second novel, \u003ci\u003eTalking Animals\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 24, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47265739079929,"sku":"9781771662130","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/QMi4ZjtqLy9781771662130.webp?v=1768846695","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/double-teenage-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}