{"product_id":"starling-days-rowan-hisayo-buchanan-9781419751653","title":"Starling Days","description":"\u003cb\u003eSet in New York and London and shortlisted for the Costa Novel Prize and a selection of the Nervous Breakdown Book Club, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's \u003ci\u003eStarling Days\u003c\/i\u003e is a stunningly observed and unflinching yet tender novel that interrogates the relationship between mental illness and love.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Mina is staring over the edge of the George Washington Bridge when a patrol car drives up. She tries to convince the officers she's not about to jump, but they don't believe her. Her husband, Oscar, is called to pick her up. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Oscar hopes that leaving New York City for a few months will give Mina the space to heal, so they move to London, to Oscar's oldest friends and an apartment wallpapered with indigo-eyed birds, near a canal and flower market. Mina, a classicist, works on her book about mythological women and searches for solutions to her failing mental health by pondering their lives. Penelope, Psyche, Leda . . . They all survived, didn't they? Even Iphigenia, in one of the tellings. Mina finally finds a beam of light in Phoebe, a real-life woman, and Oscar and Mina's complicated love is tested. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A gorgeously wrought novel, variously about love, mythology, mental illness, and the times we need to seek out milder psychological climates, Rowan Hisayo Buchanan's \u003ci\u003eStarling Days \u003c\/i\u003eis a complex and compelling work of fiction by a singularly gifted writer. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rowan Hisayo Buchanan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1419751654\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781419751653\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harry N. Abrams\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.60w x 0.90d","brand":"Rowan Hisayo Buchanan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44047612150015,"sku":"9781419751653","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cb40c35a-9984-4b52-9a22-0c662d65a3ec.jpg?v=1768675718","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/starling-days-rowan-hisayo-buchanan-9781419751653","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}