{"product_id":"0385695721-close_to_the_bone_a_memoir","title":"Close to the Bone: A Memoir","description":"\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A thrilling journey. . . . A must-read.\" Freida Pinto\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"How fortunate a thing it is, when life alters you without warning.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lisa Ray is one of India's first supermodels. She's also an acclaimed actor, a cancer survivor, a mother of twins born through surrogacy, a lifelong student, and a person of no fixed address. She is a woman who has lived many lives. And this is her story.\u003cbr\u003e Unflinching and deeply moving, \u003ci\u003eClose to the Bone\u003c\/i\u003e traces Lisa Ray's serendipitous life, from her childhood in Canada as the biracial daughter of an Indian man and Polish woman, to her rise as a Bollywood star; from her battle with a rare and incurable cancer, to her journey to find identity and belonging, both in the world and in her own body. Transporting and atmospheric, it takes readers across the globe: Toronto in the 1970s, when Lisa was searching for place and purpose; the intense, frenetic streets of Bombay, where, young and unmoored, she became a peer of some of the biggest names in the Bollywood industry; the lush sensuality of Colombo and a film role that changed the course of her career; and in London, where she simultaneously found her footing in drama school and lost herself in an abusive relationship. It is a storied life, and one whose adventures teach Lisa that in the brightest and darkest moments, no matter where she travels to, she can always find her way back home--to herself.\u003cbr\u003e At once charming and wise, intimate and gut-wrenchingly honest, \u003ci\u003eClose to the Bone\u003c\/i\u003e is a revealing travelogue of the soul--a brave and inspiring story of a life lived on one's own terms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eCategories:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Social Sciences\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSociology\u003cul class=\"category-tree\"\u003e\u003cli class=\"category-tree\"\u003eReference\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n","brand":"Doubleday Canada","offers":[{"title":"Used - Very Good","offer_id":46670686453950,"sku":"0385695721-3","price":12.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0640\/9689\/5166\/files\/81Xm1r0vbyL.jpg?v=1776880408","url":"https:\/\/shop.sustainablebooks.com\/products\/0385695721-close_to_the_bone_a_memoir","provider":"Sustainable Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}