{"product_id":"9781644452738","title":"My Heavenly Favorite","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA harrowing, unforgettable masterpiece by the winner of the Booker International Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, \u003ci\u003eMy Heavenly Favorite \u003c\/i\u003eis the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld’s international sensation, \u003ci\u003eThe Discomfort of Evening\u003c\/i\u003e. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside where he becomes enraptured by his “Favorite”—the farmer’s daughter. She hovers on the precipice of adolescence, and longs to have a boy’s body. The veterinarian seems to be a tantalizing possible path out from the constrictions of her conservative rural life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNarrated after the veterinarian has been punished for his crimes, Rijneveld’s audacious, profane novel is powered by the paradoxical beauty of its prose, which holds the reader fast to the page. Rijneveld refracts the contours of the \u003ci\u003eLolita\u003c\/i\u003e story with a kind of perverse glee, taking the reader into otherwise unimaginable spaces full of pop lyrics, horror novels, the Favorite’s fantasized conversations with Freud and Hitler, and her dreams of flight and destruction and transcendence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn unflinching depiction of abjection and a pointed excavation of taboos and social norms\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Heavenly Favorite\u003c\/i\u003e establishes Rijneveld as one of the most daring and brilliant writers on the world stage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lucas Rijneveld","offers":[{"title":"Graywolf |  Hardback | With dust jacket |  2024-03-05","offer_id":44652679856383,"sku":"9781644452738","price":37.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_57b8738e-5621-4489-959f-97e3dd139d9a.jpg?v=1704310700","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781644452738","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}