{"title":"Ivy Pochoda","description":"Ivy Pochoda is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Wonder Valley, Visitation Street, These Women, and Sing Her Down which won the LA Times Book Prize. She won the 2018 Strand Critics Award for Best Novel and the Prix Page America in France, and has been a finalist for the the Edgar Award, among other awards. For many years, Ivy has led a creative writing workshop in Skid Row Los Angeles where she helped found Skid Row Zine. She is currently a professor of creative writing at the University of California Riverside-Palm Desert low-residency MFA program. She lives in Los Angeles.","products":[{"product_id":"ecstasy-hardcover","title":"Ecstasy - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA deliciously dark horror reimagining of a Greek tragedy, by Ivy Pochoda, winner of the \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Prize.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLena wants her life back. Her wealthy, controlling, humorless husband has just died, and now she contends with her controlling, humorless son, Drew. Lena lands in Naxos with her best friend in tow for the unveiling of her son's, pet project--the luxurious Agape Villas. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYears of marriage amongst the wealthy elite has whittled Lena's spirit into rope and sinew, smothered by tasteful cocktail dresses and unending small talk. On Naxos she yearns to rediscover her true nature, remember the exuberant dancer and party girl she once was, but Drew tightens his grip, keeping her cloistered inside the hotel, demanding that she fall in line. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLena is intrigued by a group of women living in tents on the beach in front of the Agape. She can feel their drums at night, hear their seductive leader calling her to dance. Soon she'll find that an ancient God stirs on the beach, awakening dark desires of women across the island. The only questions left will be whether Lena will join them, and what it will cost her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcstasy\u003c\/i\u003e is a riveting, darkly poetic, one-sitting read about empowerment, desire, and what happens when women reject the roles set out for them.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50103240622303,"sku":"9780593851173","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/YOC8iJhbVL9780593851173.webp?v=1781090556"},{"product_id":"sing-her-down-paperback","title":"Sing Her Down - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Urgent, haunting, and fearless.\" --Megan Abbott, author of \u003ci\u003eBeware the Woman\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eSing Her Down\u003c\/i\u003e hits like a shotgun blast.\" --Dennis Lehane, author of \u003ci\u003eSmall Mercies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCormac McCarthy meets \u003ci\u003eKilling Eve \u003c\/i\u003ein this gritty, razor-sharp thriller following two indelible women on a path to certain destruction \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith blistering, incisive prose, the award-winning author Ivy Pochoda delivers a fast-paced L.A. crime novel for the ages. Gripping and immersive, \u003ci\u003eSing Her Down\u003c\/i\u003e is a spellbinding thriller that, at its core, shows just what an angry woman is capable of. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFlorence \"Florida\" Baum is not the hapless innocent she claims to be when she arrives at the Arizona women's prison--or so her ex-cellmate Diosmary Sandoval keeps insinuating. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDios knows the truth about Florida's crimes, understands what Florence hides even from herself: that she was never a victim of circumstance, an unlucky bystander misled by a bad man. Dios knows that darkness lives in women too, despite the world's refusal to see it. And she is determined to open Florida's eyes and unleash her true self. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen an unexpected reprieve gives both women their freedom, Dios's fixation on Florida turns into a dangerous obsession, and a deadly cat-and-mouse chase ensues from Arizona to the desolate streets of Los Angeles.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50104752636127,"sku":"9781250335791","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/FmicKl5-UQ9781250335791.webp?v=1781111245"},{"product_id":"visitation-street-paperback","title":"Visitation Street - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChosen by Dennis Lehane for his eponymous imprint, Ivy Pochoda's \u003cem\u003eVisitation Street\u003c\/em\u003e is a riveting literary mystery set against the rough-hewn backdrop of the New York waterfront in Red Hook.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's summertime in Red Hook, Brooklyn, a blue-collar dockside neighborhood. June and Val, two fifteen-year-olds, take a raft out onto the bay at night to see what they can see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then they disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore; semi-conscious in the weeds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis shocking event will echo through the lives of a diverse cast of Red Hook residents. Fadi, the Lebanese bodega owner, hopes that his shop will be the place to share neighborhood news and troll for information about June's disappearance. Cree, just beginning to pull it together after his father's murder, unwittingly makes himself the chief suspect, but an enigmatic and elusive guardian is determined to keep him safe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVal contends with the shadow of her missing friend and a truth she buries deep inside. Her teacher Jonathan, a Julliard School dropout and barfly, wrestles with dashed dreams and a past riddled with tragic sins.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSummer in Red Hook, Brooklyn, an isolated blue-collar neighborhood where hipster gourmet supermarkets push against tired housing projects. Bored and listless, fifteen-year-old June and Val take a pink plastic raft out onto the bay.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut on the water, in the humid night, the girls disappear. Only Val will survive, washed ashore, bruised and unconscious, in the weeds. 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