{"product_id":"the-ninth-life-of-missy-raj-shankar-9798950772023","title":"The Ninth Life of Missy","description":"\u003cp\u003eMay Calloway is very good at leaving. She has built her whole life around it - temporary apartments, transactional relationships, a one-way ticket to Ireland already booked. Then Missy, her rescue tabby, begins speaking in the voice of Michael Devaney: a dead FBI analyst who doesn't know how he died, can't quite remember his own name, and is certain of only one thing - he failed his daughter, and he needs May's help to make it right.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is part mystery, part impossible miracle, part slow undoing. As Michael's memories surface in fragments - a kitchen table, a recital, a hallway full of regret - May is pulled into a search she has no business caring about, alongside a dockworker who keeps showing up asking for nothing at all. Helping Michael find his daughter means sorting through his failures and her own history of being left behind. It also means that when the search ends, he will be gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the first time, May has to sit with the question she has spent years avoiding: what if staying is the answer?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Ninth Life of Missy\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting, funny, and quietly heartbreaking novel about grief, abandonment, and the courage to let someone see you. Some ghosts ask for closure. This one asks for a life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Raj Shankar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798950772023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Three Cats Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/29\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.78lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.64d","brand":"Raj Shankar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49097605349631,"sku":"9798950772023","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-ninth-life-of-missy-raj-shankar-9798950772023","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}