{"product_id":"mia","title":"MIA","description":"\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Harper's Bazaar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e People\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNew England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Crime Reads \u003c\/i\u003eBest of the Summer \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"An evocative, suspenseful heir to Patricia Highsmith's best work.\" --Teddy Wayne, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Winner\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A stylish, unsettling work of psychological suspense about an American woman adrift in Mexico for a year, whose chance encounter with a glamorous older expat spirals into obsession and betrayal. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Sally meets Louise outside her children's school in San Miguel de Allende, she's eager to befriend another American expat--especially one as cultured and knowing as Louise, with her ramshackle house full of art and her stories about her brushes with Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac. In Mexico for just a year with her architect husband, Sally is entranced by elegant, sharp-edged Louise, and the two quickly become inseparable. Soon enough, Louise has begun calling her Mia and, at first playfully, then in earnest, introducing Sally as her daughter to a growing circle of friends. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e By turns enthralled with the possibility of a new identity in Mexico and troubled by Louise's magnetic hold over her, Sally attempts to keep the relationship a secret from her husband. As the specter of Sally's troubled childhood looms, and Louise's self-mythologizing tightens its grip, the two women test the limits of reinvention--until their fictions threaten the security of Sally's flesh-and-blood family. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e A taut, beguiling work of psychological suspense, \u003ci\u003eMia \u003c\/i\u003eis a mother-daughter story turned on its head and a high-intensity fable about the limitations of playing a role that is not your own.","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48841090040013,"sku":"9781668227329","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0557\/1529\/9533\/files\/imageloader_fe4b5522-b119-4495-8084-70c345ee107f.jpg?v=1792002963","url":"https:\/\/booksatmidnight.com\/products\/mia","provider":"Books At Midnight","version":"1.0","type":"link"}