{"product_id":"9780063437876","title":"Furious Violet: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Crime writer Violet is happy in her solitary life, though dogged by the fame of her mother, a poet and feminist icon who died young. Then a stalker begins threatening Violet. Is it one of her mother's fans? A scathing indictment of fan culture, the true-crime industry and society's treatment of women.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeople Magazine\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of the bestselling phenomenon \u003ci\u003eDietland \u003c\/i\u003ecomes a razor-sharp, subversive thriller about motherhood, obsession, and the stories we tell ourselves to survive.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eViolet \"West\" Shelley, a self-described \"low-brow\" crime journalist, has unwillingly spent her life in the spotlight, as the only daughter of a legendary poet and feminist icon who died tragically young. Now as West approaches fifty-burned out, creatively blocked, and far older than her mother ever was-she retreats to her desolate Colorado hometown to finish a long-overdue book about the Crying Killer, a serial killer who sobs for his mother after committing his crimes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what begins as a bid for solitude quickly spirals into something far more sinister. A stalker emerges-mysterious, relentless, and disturbingly intimate-claiming that West is their mother; yet West knows this is impossible. As threatening messages escalate and her carefully constructed life starts to unravel, West is drawn into a chilling psychological web where the boundaries between fiction and reality collapse.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIs she being watched? Hunted? Or is her own mind turning against her?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGripping, provocative, and laced with pitch-black humor, \u003ci\u003eFurious Violet\u003c\/i\u003e is a psychological thrill ride and a fierce exploration of motherhood, fame, and the question of who can lay claim to women's legacies. Sarai Walker delivers a heroine unlike any other: damaged, defiant, and utterly unforgettable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43358671831101,"sku":"9780063437876","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/0838\/9949\/files\/9780063437876_p0.jpg?v=1784292748","url":"https:\/\/www.tatteredcover.mom\/products\/9780063437876","provider":"Tattered Cover","version":"1.0","type":"link"}