{"product_id":"the-crustacean","title":"The Crustacean","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe year's most spiky and powerful novella.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"When I was 13 I knew nothing about anything. I only cared about love. And the older man, who I thought I fell in love with, never told me he was divorced.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI made that up on my own.\"Chichirim is a plain 13-year-old girl. An ordinary, misunderstood, lonely seventh-grader. A girl with a terrible secret.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer dad is worse than useless. And her mum spends all her days tattooing thick ugly eyebrows on old women. Her parents forget her birthday and her sister hates them so much she wishes they were dead.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eChichirim does bad things at school. And still, no one cares. Until, one day, an older man picks her up on the side of the road.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHe tells her she is pretty. Her tells her what to do. Underneath her hard outer shell, her softness is being exploited and destroyed by the people she trusts and loves the most.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I want to come back as a crab. A crab's skin is made of bone and the flesh is inside the bone. But we're the opposite.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe have bone inside flesh.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jang Jinyeong","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56367781937539,"sku":"9781840919103","price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0573\/8600\/8738\/files\/SIMPLEWEBSITEPRODUCTIMAGE-2025-09-03T124429.279.png?v=1756899891","url":"https:\/\/rarebirdsbooks.live\/products\/the-crustacean","provider":"Rare Birds Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}