{"product_id":"son-of-a-witch-volume-two-in-the-wicked-years","title":"Son of a Witch: Volume Two in the Wicked Years","description":"Gregory Maguire\nPaperback\nFiction \/ Fantasy \/ Contemporary\n\nWhen 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.\n\nGregory Maguire returns to the world of Wicked and the land of Oz to follow the story of Liir, the adolescent boy left hiding in the shadows of the castle when Dorothy did in the Witch.\n\nA 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.\n\nLiir is only one part of the world that Elphaba ","brand":"HarperCollins","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47572780417247,"sku":"9780063398368","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0780\/5596\/4895\/files\/58a33b5dbb19df70ce5a55661695330128b510ff93402787d83b090ec7aa7f58.jpg?v=1762627804","url":"https:\/\/thewanderinglantern.store\/products\/son-of-a-witch-volume-two-in-the-wicked-years","provider":"The Wandering Lantern","version":"1.0","type":"link"}