Some mothers don't raise daughters-they remake them
"What if this time I die?"-Jocelyn dreads her birthdays.
Each odd-numbered year, on the eve of her birthday, she struggles to breathe-as if something inside her is being taken away. Her mother, Idris, insists it's a flaw in Jocelyn herself.
But Idris has a secret.
A self-taught sorceress obsessed with perfection, she uses magic to remove Jocelyn's "undesirable" moods -anger, sadness, defiance-essential parts of her very spirit-and traps them in balloons, determined to raise a flawless child.
Over time, as Jocelyn's essential spirits are removed-those qualities that make her who she really is-she becomes a pale shadow of her true self.
Inside a house ruled by rigid expectations, strange rules, and a mother who calls control "love," Jocelyn must navigate fear, isolation, and the growing sense that something is deeply wrong.
And, as Jocelyn approaches her thirteenth birthday, she must decide: Will she surrender to her mother's control-or reclaim the parts of herself that were taken?外文書商品之書封，為出版社提供之樣本。實際出貨商品，以出版社所提供之現有版本為主。部份書籍，因出版社供應狀況特殊，匯率將依實際狀況做調整。
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