{"product_id":"loverboy","title":"Loverboy","description":"Description for LOVERBOY by Victoria Redel: \u003cp\u003e\r\n\r\nIn Victoria Redel's mesmerizing first novel, the question of what happens when a mother loves her child too much is deeply and darkly explored. Left with a small fortune by her parents and the cryptic advice, \"it would do to find a passion,\" Redel's narrator sets out to become a mother--a task she feels she can be adequately passionate about. She conceives her son Paul through a loveless one-night stand, surrounds him with a wonderful, magical world for two--a world filled with books, music, endless games, and bottomless devotion--and calls him pet names like Birdie, Cookie, Puppy, and Loverboy. She wonders, \"Has ever a mother loved a child more?\" But as life outside their lace curtains begins to beckon the school-age Paul, his mother's efforts to keep him content in their small world become increasingly frantic and ultimately extreme by all definitions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\r\nIn this exquisite debut novel, Victoria Redel takes us deep into the mind of a very singular mother, exposing the dangerously whisper-thin line between selfless and selfish motivation that exists in all types of devotion.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Connies Bookshelf","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42954603397336,"sku":"9781555973223","price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0648\/9099\/4904\/products\/Loverboy.jpg?v=1654990467","url":"https:\/\/conniesbookshelf.com\/products\/loverboy","provider":"Connies Bookshelf","version":"1.0","type":"link"}