{"product_id":"the-crustacean-jang-jinyeong-9781840919141","title":"The Crustacean","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A harrowing, off-beat novella about the ways in which young teenagers process trauma -- think MY DARK VANESSA meets EARTHLINGS. A truly unique gut-punch of a read' Alice Slater, author of Death of a Bookseller\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'The Crustacean isn't a novel, it's an obsession . . . I would kill and die for this book' ALISSA NUTTING, author of Tampa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe year's most spiky and powerful novella \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"When I was 13 I knew nothing about anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI only cared about love. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnd the older man, who I thought I fell in love with, never told me he was divorced. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI made that up on my own.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChichirim is a plain 13-year-old girl. An ordinary, misunderstood, lonely seventh-grader. A girl with a terrible secret. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e                                                            Her dad is worse than useless. And her mum spends all her days tattooing thick ugly eyebrows on old women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e Her parents forget her birthday and her sister hates them so much she wishes they were dead. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eChichirim does bad things at school. And still, no one cares. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUntil, one day, an older man picks her up on the side of the road. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe tells her she is pretty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer tells her what to do. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnderneath her hard outer shell, her softness is being exploited and destroyed by the people she trusts and loves the most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I want to come back as a crab. A crab's skin is made of bone and the flesh is inside the bone. But we're the opposite. We have bone inside flesh.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTHE CRUSTACEAN is an intricately crafted novella exploring memory, exploitation, and the lasting effects of adult abuse and betrayal, for readers of My Dark Vanessa and Tampa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jang Jinyeong","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":47742953783539,"sku":"9781840919141","price":29.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9781840919141.jpg?v=1757450001","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-crustacean-jang-jinyeong-9781840919141","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}