{"product_id":"chosen-family-a-novel-isbn-9780063485709","title":"Chosen Family: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn exuberant and irreverently funny novel about one gorgeously messy friendship-feud-unrequited-love-affair set in Sydney across eighteen years.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNell Argall and Eve Bowman are both brilliant, odd, and friendless. When they meet on the brutal battlefield that is their posh all girls’ high school during their first year there, both their lives are changed forever. From school, to university, to careers, Nell and Eve’s relationship is a life raft that is also a poison apple that is also a Medusan stare, frozen in time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the passion, guilt, shame, and joy that perpetually twists and turns between them finally implodes, Nell abruptly walks away, leaving Eve alone at the helm of the gloriously unorthodox family they’ve built with their seven-year-old daughter, Lake. Eve finds herself left wondering: Can the wounds of adolescent betrayal ever really heal? Can we ever really understand what’s going on in someone else’s head? And what’s love got to do, got to do with it?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten with Gray’s characteristic big-heartedness and dark wit, \u003ci\u003eChosen Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a queer modern classic that reminds us again and again that sometimes the most fulfilling and life-saving relationships are the ones that are the hardest to define.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Funny, contemporary and attuned to the subtle negotiations that shape friendships and first loves.\" —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSydney Morning Herald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Funny, profound, and deeply true, \u003ci\u003eChosen Family\u003c\/i\u003e is a tender story about love, identity, family, and whether it is possible to combine the three into something entirely new. I turned the pages so fast, it felt like reading a mystery, except the only mystery is the spectacular complexity of the human heart. Wow, what a novel.\" \u003cb\u003e—Holly Brickley, author of \u003ci\u003eDeep Cuts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With great wit, candor, and empathy, Madeleine Gray’s \u003ci\u003eChosen Family \u003c\/i\u003etells a story of queer community, one where the lines between friendship and love blur, where characters try to forge new paths, sometimes stumbling gloriously along the way. Smart, moving, and funny, \u003ci\u003eChosen Family\u003c\/i\u003e is an ode to those who reject convention in hopes of something brighter, truer, and more alive.” \u003cb\u003e—Thomas Grattan, author of \u003ci\u003eIn Tongues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I laughed, I cried, I fell in love with \u003ci\u003eChosen Family.\u003c\/i\u003e Beautiful, devastating, hilarious and full of life.” \u003cb\u003e—Jessica Stanley, author of \u003ci\u003eConsider Yourself Kissed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A passionate ode to friendship that is sharp and hilarious funny, brave and utopian, sexy but not too serious about it. Most of all it felt deeply real and true.” \u003cb\u003e—Niamh Campbell, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis Happy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Whatever \u003ci\u003eit \u003c\/i\u003eis, Gray has it!” \u003cb\u003e—Nigella Lawson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48587988926693,"sku":"NP9780063485709","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063485709.jpg?v=1773959956","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/chosen-family-a-novel-isbn-9780063485709","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}