{"product_id":"hunger-and-thirst-a-novel","title":"Hunger And Thirst: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom The Celebrated Author Of Bitter Orange And Swimming Lessons Comes An Atmospheric, Psychologically Vivid, And Unputdownable New Novel Of Complicated Friendship And The Desperate Need To Belong (Alice Winn)1987: After A Childhood Trauma And Years In And Out Of The Care System, SixteenYearOld Ursula Finds Herself With A New Job Delivering Mail At A Local Art School, A Bed In A Halfway House, And Some New Friends, Including WildChild Sue. When Ursula Is Invited To Join A Squat At The Underwood, A Mysterious House Whose Owners Met A Terrible End, She CanT Resist This Hodgepodge Family. But As SueS Behavior And Demands Become More Extreme, Ursula, Who Has Always Been HungryFor Food, But More Importantly For Love And AcceptanceCarries Out Her FriendS Terrible Dare. And, For This, Ursula Finds Herself Literally Haunted.ThirtySix Years Later, Ursula Is A Renowned But Reclusive Sculptor Living Under A Pseudonym In London When Her Identity Is Exposed By A TrueCrime Documentarian Researching An Unsolved Disappearance. But The Filmmaker Is Not The Only One Who Has Discovered UrsulaS Whereabouts, And As Her Past Catches Up With Her Present, Ursula Must Work Out Whether The Monsters Are Within Her Or WithoutAnd If They Will Finally Make Her Pay For Her Past Mistakes.Part Gothic Horror, Part ComingOfAge, And A With Contemporary Twist On The HauntedHouse Story, Hunger And Thirst Is A Chilling Tale Of Loneliness, Of The Dangerous Line Between Wanting And Needing, And Of How Far A Person Will Go To Truly Belong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tin House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47957971370229,"sku":"DADAX1963108728","price":42.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/5804\/8501\/files\/91XVs-qp6zL.jpg?v=1775561086","url":"https:\/\/ergodebooks.com\/products\/hunger-and-thirst-a-novel","provider":"Ergodebooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}