{"product_id":"grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers","title":"Grief Is the Thing with Feathers","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne shiny jet-black eye as big as my face, blinking slowly, in a leathery wrinkled socket...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnd this is what he said:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eI won’t leave until you don’t need me any more.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the midst of grief he comes. He comes with a crackling of feathers and a smell of decay. He comes like the worst thing you could ever imagine, like something you should never have to imagine, he comes when you need him. He is a reminder, a companion, a harbinger, a scruffy homeless layabout, a friend. He is Crow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn a London flat, two young boys face the unbearable sadness of their mother's sudden death. Their father, a Ted Hughes scholar and scruffy romantic, imagines a future of well-meaning visitors and emptiness. In this moment of despair they are visited by Crow - antagonist, trickster, healer, babysitter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis sentimental bird is drawn to the grieving family becoming the mouthpiece for their sorrow, an echo of what cannot be said. Slowly, as the months pass, they become familiar with Crow and his odd companionship and almost imperceptibly, they begin to heal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Max Porter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45000229486639,"sku":"9780571327232","price":899.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0743\/6428\/9071\/files\/9780571327232.jpg?v=1772366495","url":"https:\/\/lunabooks.in\/products\/grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers","provider":"Luna Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}