{"product_id":"the-bobcat-a-novel-9781948924092","title":"The Bobcat: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for The Center for Fictions best debut novel of 2019   With the hypnotic intensity of Emily Fridlunds The History of Wolves and Fiona McFarlanes The Night Guest  Katherine Forbes Riley has created a mesmerizing love story  in lush  gorgeous prose  that examines art  science  and the magic of human chemistry.  \"Teeming with lush imagery and mystical settings  and brimming with alluring magical realism  Rileys tale is a beguiling journey of discovery and recovery.  Booklist  Haunting and lyrical  The Bobcat is Katherine Forbes Rileys magical debut novel in which Laurelie  a young art student who suffers in the aftermath of a sexual assault  has grown progressively more isolated and fearful. She transfers from her busy city university to a small college in rural Vermont  where she retreats into her vivid imagination  experiencing the world through her art. Most comfortable in the company of the child for whom she babysits  and most at ease in the woods  Laurelie has shunned any connection with her peers.  One day  while exploring the woods  she and her young charge encounter an injured pregnant bobcat  and the hiker who has been following it for hundreds of miles. In the hiker and his feline companion Laurelie recognizes someone as reclusive and wary as herself. The hiker  too  finds human companionship painful to endure  yet he is drawn to wounded Laurelie the way he is drawn to the bobcat. As Laurelie moves toward recovery and reconnection she also finds her voice as an artist  and a sense of purpose  maybe even a future  comes into sight. Then the child goes missing in the woods  threatening the bobcat  the hiker  and the fragile peace Laurelie has constructed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67930158596149,"sku":"ByrdShop_1948924099","price":56.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781948924092.jpg?v=1794206568","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-bobcat-a-novel-9781948924092","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}