{"product_id":"9781998336197","title":"The Orange Notebooks","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTold through a mother’s journals written while interned in a French psychiatric ward, this is a novel about love, and the lost language and rituals of mourning.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe siesta hour, France. Bees fly in lavender bushes. Anna has just come home, but something is wrong, and she fears nothing will ever be right again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnna is haunted by the death of her only child, Lou. Hospitalized in a psychiatric ward, Anna becomes determined to undo death by writing everything down in a set of orange notebooks: fragments and tales about bees, death rituals, the story of her relationship with Lou’s Basque father, Antton, and their meeting on a ferry on the day Princess Diana died, a cursed trench coat, Lou’s Jewish and Basque heritage, and the duplicity of the colour beige.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the hospital, Anna meets Yann, a Breton sea captain. Together, they go on a surreal, Orphic journey to the underworld, sailing from Finistère to the middle of the English Channel, to try and find Lou at the exact point where his destiny began.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Susanna Crossman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":50000666067301,"sku":"9781998336197","price":23.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0851\/2651\/2997\/files\/BNCImageAPI_ca14ee0d-8d88-4a77-94c0-39e165054378.jpg?v=1761365799","url":"https:\/\/www.commonplaceingersoll.ca\/products\/9781998336197","provider":"Commonplace Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}