{"product_id":"son-of-a-witch-volume-two-in-the-wicked-years","title":"Son of a Witch: Volume Two in the Wicked Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling sequel to \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e, the multimillion-copy\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ebestseller and basis for the #1 smash hit movie starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen a Witch dies--not as a crone, withered and incapable, but as a woman in her prime, at the height of her passion and prowess--too much is left unsaid. What might have happened had Elphaba lived? Of her campaigns in defense of the Animals, of her appetite for justice, of her talent for magic itself, what good might have come? If every death is a tragedy, the death of a woman in her prime keenly bereaves the whole world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Maguire returns to the world of \u003ci\u003eWicked\u003c\/i\u003e and the land of Oz in this epic fantasy novel to follow the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy did in the Witch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA decade after the Witch has melted away, the young man Liir is discovered bruised, comatose, and left for dead in a gully. Shattered in spirit as well as in form, he is tended by the mysterious Candle, a foundling in her own right, until failed campaigns of his childhood bear late, unexpected fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLiir's coming of age story is only one part of the world that Elphaba left behind. As a boy hardly in his teens, he is asked to help the needy in ways in which he may be unskilled. Is he Elphaba's son? His quest for identity will determine if he has power of his own. Can he liberate Princess Nastoya into a dignified death? Can he locate his supposed half-sister, Nor, last seen in shackles in the Wizard's protection? Can he survive in an Oz rife with political intrigue and little improved since the death of the Wicked Witch of the West? Can he learn to fly?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSon of a Witch\u003c\/i\u003e, Gregory Maguire suggests that the magic we locate in distant, improbable places like Oz is no greater than the magic inherent in any hard life lived fully, son of a witch or no.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Morrow \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51942849347815,"sku":"9780063398368","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_c74fa745-04d9-4bec-93a8-53a4e3efa5c2.jpg?v=1775270899","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/son-of-a-witch-volume-two-in-the-wicked-years","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}