{"product_id":"the-coi","title":"The Coin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold and unabashed novel about a young Palestinian woman's unraveling as she teaches at a New York City middle school, gets caught up in a scheme reselling Birkin bags, and strives to gain control over her body and mind\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Coin’\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003es narrator is a wealthy Palestinian woman with impeccable style and meticulous hygiene. And yet the ideal self, the ideal life, remains just out of reach: her inheritance is inaccessible, her homeland exists only in her memory, and her attempt to thrive in America seems doomed from the start.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn New York, she strives to put down roots. She teaches at a school for underprivileged boys, where her eccentric methods cross boundaries. She befriends a homeless swindler, and the two participate in an intercontinental scheme reselling Birkin bags.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut America is stifling her—her willfulness, her sexuality, her principles. In an attempt to regain control, she becomes preoccupied with purity, cleanliness, and self-image, all while drawing her students into her obsessions. In an unforgettable denouement, her childhood memories converge with her material and existential statelessness, and the narrator unravels spectacularly.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn enthralling, sensory prose,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eThe Coin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores nature and civilization, beauty and justice, class and belonging—all while resisting easy moralizing. Provocative, wry, and inviting, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Coin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e marks the arrival of a major new literary voice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50486665543960,"sku":"9781646222766","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0824\/2852\/6872\/files\/9781646222766_02a97.jpg?v=1753220665","url":"https:\/\/www.clearysbookstore.com\/products\/the-coi","provider":"Cleary's Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}