{"product_id":"do-not-become-alarmed-9780735216532","title":"Do Not Become Alarmed","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe moving and suspenseful new novel that Ann Patchett calls \"smart and thrilling and impossible to put down... the book that every reader longs for.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“This summer’s undoubtable smash hit… an addictive, heart-palpitating story.” —\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe sun is shining, the sea is blue, the children have disappeared.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e When Liv and Nora decide to take their husbands and children on a holiday cruise,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eeveryone is thrilled. The adults are lulled by the ship’s comfort and ease. The four\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003echildren—ages six to eleven—love the nonstop buffet and their newfound independence.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBut when they all go ashore for an adventure in Central America, a series of minor\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003emisfortunes and miscalculations leads the families farther from the safety of the ship. One\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eminute the children are there, and the next they’re gone.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The disintegration of the world the families knew—told from the perspectives of both the\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eadults and the children—is both riveting and revealing. The parents, accustomed to\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003esecurity and control, turn on each other and blame themselves, while the seemingly\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehelpless children discover resources they never knew they possessed.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDo Not Become Alarmed \u003c\/i\u003eis a story about the protective force of innocence and the limits\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eof parental power, and an insightful look at privileged illusions of safety. Celebrated for\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eher spare and moving fiction, Maile Meloy has written a gripping novel about how\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003equickly what we count on can fall away, and the way a crisis shifts our perceptions of\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ewhat matters most.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62232410259843,"sku":"9780735216532","price":16.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9780735216532.jpg?v=1785348531","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/do-not-become-alarmed-9780735216532","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}