{"product_id":"mother-of-god","title":"Mother of God","description":"\u003cp\u003eA landmark literary novel of psychological horror from the author of I Become a Delight to My Enemies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMarlene calls herself a psychic wound healer, but really, her paranormal abilities are restricted to visions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn fact, they're restricted to visions of just one person.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer mother, Darlene.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe visions started when Marlene was nine: a symbol and a symptom of an unfathomably deep maternal connection; a mental and emotional escape hatch; evidence of a bond so intense that a rupture was perhaps inevitable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd yet, years of estrangement later, when Marlene receives a message from Darlene asking her to come home, she packs up her life in Vancouver and drives across the country to small-town Nova Scotia. It's a trip fraught with vivid, oppressive memories--of childhood betrayals, the distant decades that followed, and the malevolent presence of Darlene's on-again-off-again boyfriend, Ed. Still, the opportunity is overwhelming--the chance to become the centres of each other's universes once again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut when she arrives, Darlene is not where she should be.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFigures from the past materialize as reality's thin membrane begins to give way, and Marlene is forced to confront the incomprehensible as she is sent down a path of terrors, to the very end of human feeling, to the very end of her mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSinister and surreal, ghastly and full of grace, Mother of God is a singular story of love and dread from one of the great writers of their generation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sara Peters","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51112340390209,"sku":"9780771020278","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0883\/1431\/5073\/files\/9780771020278.jpg?v=1765323278","url":"https:\/\/bloodstonebookshop.com\/products\/mother-of-god","provider":"Bloodstone Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}