{"product_id":"bogeywoman-9780307946898","title":"Bogeywoman","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jaimy Gordon\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Vintage\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: LGBTQ+ - Lesbian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book or the Year \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNational Book Award Winner Jaimy Gordon's bold and daring coming of age novel combines the teenaged angst of \u003ci\u003eCatcher in the Rye\u003c\/i\u003e with the humor and tragedy of \u003ci\u003eGirl, Interrupted\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUrsie Koderer knows herself to be a monster--doomed to be different from other girls--very different. When she's discovered cutting herself at camp, she goes AWOL, and lands in a Baltimore psychiatric hospital. Ursie, now known as the Bogeywoman, joins up with the other misfits on the adolescent ward. They start a bughouse rock group, steal a nitrous oxide machine. As a mental patient Ursie is a success. But then she's implicated in the accidental burning of a friend. Locked away, the Bogeywoman meets the beautiful, mysterious Doctor Zuk, a woman psychiatrist from somewhere east of the Urals. Their affair is the main event in this gorgeous novel of love, crime, liberation, and flight to something like a new world.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45354732552343,"sku":"9780307946898","price":734.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780307946898.webp?v=1767669988","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bogeywoman-9780307946898","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}