{"product_id":"book-motherclown-preorder","title":"book - motherclown","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA dual coming-of-age story about performance—both public and private—sexuality, envy, and grief. \u003ci\u003eMotherclown\u003c\/i\u003e explores the most fundamental and potentially explosive of human relationships: that of a mother and her daughter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the wake of her father’s death, twenty-one-year-old Elise leaves her boyfriend, mother, and hometown of Niagara Falls to move to Paris. She’s earned a place at Chevalier, an elite physical theatre school with a focus on clown. Not “clown-clown,” but the pursuit of an inner child. At Chevalier, they don’t follow scripts—they follow their souls. The school is merciless, and it is the best.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLeft behind, Elise’s mother, Catherine, is unravelling. At first she feels irritated, as if she’s just been\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e demoted: from wife to widow, mother to empty-nester. She longs for the creative life she lost when she became pregnant, and in the quiet of the empty house, she becomes haunted by regret, and a secret she never told her daughter. When Elise disappears into Paris, Catherine follows.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut Elise, awakening to her own creative power, feels ambushed by her mother’s arrival. As Paris works its spell on them both, old wounds surface and resentments ignite. Can Elise hear her mother without losing herself? Can Catherine face the real reason she followed her daughter to Paris, or is she there—as Elise believes—to swallow her daughter whole?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMotherclown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an electric novel about art and inheritance, desire and devotion, and the ferocious, vulnerable love between mothers and daughters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e352 pages \/ Paperback\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis item is a preorder \u0026amp; will ship June 2, 2026.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Baa Baazaar","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48592805953751,"sku":null,"price":26.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0638\/0385\/0967\/files\/Untitleddesign_2.png?v=1778267125","url":"https:\/\/baabaazaar.com\/fr\/products\/book-motherclown-preorder","provider":"Baa Baazaar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}