{"product_id":"the-boy-who-consumed-joy-a-pschological-thriller-9798902961093","title":"The Boy Who Consumed Joy: A Pschological Thriller","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Manya Shah\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Notion Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Notion Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers \u0026amp; Suspense\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIvan Winston learns early that joy is fleeting. Abandoned by his parents and raised in quiet neglect, he grows up mistaking warmth for something that must be seized before it disappears. As a child, he tries to consume happiness literally. As a teenager, he learns to control it instead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoving between past and present, 'The Boy Who Consumed Joy' traces the making of a boy who was never taught how to be loved, only how to endure. Therapy gives him restraint but not peace. Connection offers hope, then reignites fear. What begins as survival slowly hardens into obsession, power, and a dangerous hunger for certainty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a story of sudden corruption, but of gradual unraveling. Of how neglect can be quieter than cruelty, and how being unseen can shape a person more deeply than punishment. Dark, psychological, and unsettling, this novel asks where responsibility begins, where understanding ends, and what happens when joy is chased too hard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome hunger does not fade with time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt only learns new forms.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Notion Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47571329286295,"sku":"9798902961093","price":889.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798902961093.webp?v=1774886928","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-boy-who-consumed-joy-a-pschological-thriller-9798902961093","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}