{"product_id":"normal-people-dont-live-like-this-a-novel-in-stories-deluxe-edition-paperback","title":"Normal People Don't Live Like This: A Novel in Stories (Deluxe Edition) - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDylan Landis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Wonderful! Leah and Helen are authentic, vulnerable characters, whose intimate truths are exposed at perfect, unexpected moments.\"―Elizabeth Strout \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA jolting, sensual novel in stories that traces the crises, cruelties and passions of girls and mothers in the chaos of 1970s Greenwich Village, now in a deluxe edition featuring a reader's guide and a new, previously unpublished story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e1970s Greenwich Village: Leah Levinson can't help worshipping the girls who torment her at school. Her perilous, magnetic friendships with Rainey Royal and Angeline Yost--girls she fears yet cannot resist--leave her desperate to shift the balance of power and affection. Meanwhile, Leah's emotionally estranged mother, Helen, secretly rents a room uptown where she lives out a second life. And Rainey--whose chaotic upbringing fills her with artistic inspiration and dread--decides to risk everything on an act of vengeance in a legendary artists' building. As we move between points of view, the New York of another era blazes with danger, beauty, and possibility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFirst published in 2009 and now expanded with a new story, \u003ci\u003eNormal People Don't Live Like This\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous depiction of the crises, cruelties, and passions of girls and mothers, and the first book in the Rainey Royal Cycle. It is joined by a new novel in stories\u003ci\u003e, List of All Possible Desires\u003c\/i\u003e, and a deluxe edition of the 2014 novel \u003ci\u003eRainey Royal\u003c\/i\u003e. Each book stands on its own, yet together they echo and amplify one another, creating one of the richest and most intense worlds in contemporary American fiction.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDylan Landis \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of three works of fiction in the Rainey Royal Cycle set in 1970s Greenwich Village: the \u003ci\u003eforthcoming List of All Possible Desires\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eRainey Royal\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eNormal People Don't Live Like This\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eO. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBest American Nonrequired Reading\u003c\/i\u003e, and other anthologies. She has received a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in fiction and lives in Los Angeles.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.2 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 07, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46938940440751,"sku":"9781641298001","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/7314\/1679\/files\/D7gE-7ofZO9781641298001.webp?v=1779388484","url":"https:\/\/valuevaultclub.myshopify.com\/products\/normal-people-dont-live-like-this-a-novel-in-stories-deluxe-edition-paperback","provider":"Value Vault Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}