{"product_id":"the-spectacular-miss-paperback-book","title":"The Spectacular Miss | Paperback Book","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI learned that I am, despite my early years spent as a swaggering boy, at heart just a middle-class, hard-working, risk-averse, un-creative, strait-laced, routine-obsessed conformist. In case I forgot to mention it, I m also prudish to the point of being puritanical. But at eight, Nira had only one over-powering wish to pee standing up like a boy. In fact, to be a boy. Join Nira as she steps into her brother s clothes and becomes the self-appointed Al Caponesque gang leader of the neighbourhood boys. Her oddball yet madly loving family shapes her personality and a poignant relationship with her brother s best friend shapes her life. She uses uninhibited candour to detail her coming-of-age journey from Calcutta to London, from tomboy to reluctant woman-in-progress always trying to fit in, but always failing. She s a laugh a minute and yet she breaks your heart with her subconscious, percussive yearning for the one person who is always too old, too far, too married to be hers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Quickcarto","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52731134968107,"sku":"12326221","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/5085\/2651\/files\/52_bd7778dd-e409-44d7-9a15-c85762084d6e.jpg?v=1773291501","url":"https:\/\/www.quickcarto.com\/products\/the-spectacular-miss-paperback-book","provider":"Quickcarto","version":"1.0","type":"link"}