{"product_id":"the-crustacean","title":"The Crustacean","description":"'A harrowing, off-beat novella about the ways in which young teenagers process trauma -- think MY DARK VANESSA meets EARTHLINGS. A truly unique gut-punch of a read' Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The Crustacean isn't a novel, it's an obsession . . . I would kill and die for this book' ALISSA NUTTING, author of Tampa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year's most spiky and powerful novella \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'When I was 13 I knew nothing about anything.\u003cbr\u003eI only cared about love. \u003cbr\u003eAnd the older man, who I thought I fell in love with, never told me he was divorced. \u003cbr\u003eI made that up on my own.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChichirim is a plain 13-year-old girl. An ordinary, misunderstood, lonely seventh-grader. A girl with a terrible secret. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Her dad is worse than useless. And her mum spends all her days tattooing thick ugly eyebrows on old women.\u003cbr\u003e Her parents forget her birthday and her sister hates them so much she wishes they were dead. \u003cbr\u003eChichirim does bad things at school. And still, no one cares. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUntil, one day, an older man picks her up on the side of the road. \u003cbr\u003eHe tells her she is pretty.\u003cbr\u003eHer tells her what to do. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnderneath her hard outer shell, her softness is being exploited and destroyed by the people she trusts and loves the most.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'I want to come back as a crab. A crab's skin is made of bone and the flesh is inside the bone. But we're the opposite. We have bone inside flesh.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE CRUSTACEAN is an intricately crafted novella exploring memory, exploitation, and the lasting effects of adult abuse and betrayal, for readers of My Dark Vanessa and Tampa.","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":53794638725458,"sku":"9781840919141","price":19.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_0cf3e637-d439-4220-bb3e-9541b95c1734.jpg?v=1781860123","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/the-crustacean","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}