{"product_id":"normal-people-dont-live-like-this-a-novel-in-stories-deluxe-edition-paperback","title":"Normal People Don't Live Like This: A Novel in Stories (Deluxe Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wonderful! Leah and Helen are authentic, vulnerable characters, whose intimate truths are exposed at perfect, unexpected moments.\"―Elizabeth Strout \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA jolting, sensual novel in stories that traces the crises, cruelties and passions of girls and mothers in the chaos of 1970s Greenwich Village, now in a deluxe edition featuring a reader's guide and a new, previously unpublished story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1970s Greenwich Village: Leah Levinson can't help worshipping the girls who torment her at school. Her perilous, magnetic friendships with Rainey Royal and Angeline Yost--girls she fears yet cannot resist--leave her desperate to shift the balance of power and affection. Meanwhile, Leah's emotionally estranged mother, Helen, secretly rents a room uptown where she lives out a second life. And Rainey--whose chaotic upbringing fills her with artistic inspiration and dread--decides to risk everything on an act of vengeance in a legendary artists' building. As we move between points of view, the New York of another era blazes with danger, beauty, and possibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 2009 and now expanded with a new story, \u003ci\u003eNormal People Don't Live Like This\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous depiction of the crises, cruelties, and passions of girls and mothers, and the first book in the Rainey Royal Cycle. It is joined by a new novel in stories\u003ci\u003e, List of All Possible Desires\u003c\/i\u003e, and a deluxe edition of the 2014 novel \u003ci\u003eRainey Royal\u003c\/i\u003e. Each book stands on its own, yet together they echo and amplify one another, creating one of the richest and most intense worlds in contemporary American fiction.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50101207761119,"sku":"9781641298001","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/D7gE-7ofZO9781641298001.webp?v=1781068471","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/normal-people-dont-live-like-this-a-novel-in-stories-deluxe-edition-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}