{"product_id":"portraits-at-the-palace-of-creativity-and-wrecking","title":"Portraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy: Han Smith\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003eThe almost daughter is almost normal, because she knows how to know and also not know.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShe knows and does not know, for instance, about the barracks by the athletics field, and about the lonely woman she visits each week. She knows - almost - about ghosts, and their ghosts, and she knows not to have questions about them. She knows to focus on being a woman: on training her body and dreaming only of escape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThen, the almost daughter meets Oksana. Oksana is not even almost normal, and the questions she has are not normal at all.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePortraits at the Palace of Creativity and Wrecking\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a young woman coming of age in a town reckoning with its brutal past, for readers of \u003ci\u003eMilkman \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eA Girl is a Half-Formed Thing\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46977027768471,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0560\/0349\/4039\/files\/image_f6623f71-c7da-4b5d-a2f7-74fa315c1422.jpg?v=1772563746","url":"https:\/\/littledistrictbooks.com\/products\/portraits-at-the-palace-of-creativity-and-wrecking","provider":"Little District Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}