{"product_id":"his-illegal-self-peter-carey","title":"His Illegal Self - Peter Carey","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen the boy was almost eight, a woman stepped out of the elevator into the apartment on East Sixty-second Street and he recognized her straightaway. No one had told him to expect it. That was pretty typical of growing up with Grandma Selkirk . . . No one would dream of saying, Here is your mother returned to you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHis Illegal Self\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the story of Che \"raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother, he is the precocious son of radical student activists at Harvard in the late sixties. Yearning for his famous outlaw parents denied all access to television and the news, he takes hope from his long-haired teenage neighbor, who predicts, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey will come for you, man. They'll break you out of here.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSoon Che too is an outlaw: fleeing down subways, abandoning seedy motels at night, he is pitched into a journey that leads him to a hippie commune in the jungle of tropical Queensland. Here he slowly, bravely confronts his life, learning that nothing is what it seems. Who is his real mother? Was that his real father? If all he suspects is true, what should he do?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNever sentimental, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHis Illegal Self\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an achingly beautiful story of the love between a young woman and a little boy. It may make you cry more than once before it lifts your spirit in the most lovely, artful, unexpected way.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUSED BOOK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e272 pages, Hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published February 5, 2008\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brewberry Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43128662884446,"sku":"9780307356567","price":12.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0631\/0585\/9678\/files\/1387842.jpg?v=1786068184","url":"https:\/\/www.brewberrybooks.ca\/products\/his-illegal-self-peter-carey","provider":"Brewberry Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}