{"product_id":"mia-a-novel-by-leslie-bazzett-preorder","title":"Mia: A Novel by Leslie Bazzett (Preorder)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"ant-tabs ant-tabs-top ant-tabs-small ant-tabs-card itemTabs\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ant-tabs-content-holder\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"ant-tabs-content ant-tabs-content-top\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv role=\"tabpanel\" aria-hidden=\"false\" class=\"ant-tabs-tabpane ant-tabs-tabpane-active\" id=\"rc-tabs-6-panel-description\" aria-labelledby=\"rc-tabs-6-tab-description\" tabindex=\"0\"\u003e\n\u003ch3 class=\"html htmlcolor bm-lnkin-0\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease date: August 11th, 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"html htmlcolor bm-lnkin-0\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA stylish, unsettling work of psychological suspense about an American woman, adrift in Mexico for a year, whose chance encounter with a glamorous older expat spirals into obsession and betrayal.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThere’s no one, there’s only you.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen Sally, an American living in San Miguel de Allende, meets Louise outside her children’s school, she’s eager to immerse herself more deeply in the life of the city. In Mexico for just a year with her husband, an architect, Sally is entranced by Louise—her elegance, her harshness, her stories about Burroughs, Ginsberg, and Kerouac—and the two quickly become inseparable. Soon enough, Louise has begun calling her Mia\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand, at first playfully, then in earnest, introducing Sally as her daughter to a growing circle of friends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy turns enthralled with the possibility of a new identity in Mexico and troubled by Louise’s magnetic hold over her, Sally attempts to keep the relationship a secret from her husband. As the specter of Sally’s troubled childhood looms, and Louise’s self-mythologizing tightens its grip, the two women test the limits of reinvention—until their fictions threaten the security of Sally’s flesh-and-blood family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA taut, beguiling work of psychological suspense, \u003ci\u003eMia \u003c\/i\u003eis a mother-daughter story turned on its head and a high-intensity fable about the limitations of playing a role that doesn’t belong to you.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44029536763991,"sku":"9781668227329","price":41.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0603\/6488\/2007\/files\/image_fcebc6c3-e692-4d81-90a0-10fae79edeaa.jpg?v=1783965793","url":"https:\/\/nottawacottagebookstore.ca\/products\/mia-a-novel-by-leslie-bazzett-preorder","provider":"Nottawa Cottage Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}