{"product_id":"our-lady-of-the-prairie-paperback","title":"Our Lady of the Prairie - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThisbe Nissen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"As gripping as it is hilarious.\" -- \u003cem\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"I devoured this novel . . . It just made my whole being vibrate and hum with the impossible, inevitable business of loving other people.\" -- Leslie Jamison, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling author of \u003cem\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Recovering\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e For Phillipa Maakestad--theater professor and mother to a troubled, volatile daughter--life is finally, miraculously calm. What better moment, then, to fall headlong into a passionate affair, fly off to France with her new lover, and effectively take a match to her life on the Iowa prairie?\u003cbr\u003e As she steps back to survey the damage and determine her way forward, Phillipa must contend with a wedding-day tornado, a menace of a mother-in-law who may or may not have been a Nazi collaborator, and the tragicomic revenge fantasies of her otherwise docile husband. Which is to say: the damage is not easily contained, and the path ahead is not clear.\u003cbr\u003e Thisbe Nissen offers up a fever-pitched, bitingly funny novel about a woman's quest to find her place in her own story. \u003cem\u003eOur Lady of the Prairie\u003c\/em\u003e is a bravura performance--a twister sweeping through the heart of the land and the land of the heart.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Wonderfully witty.\" -- \u003cem\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Brazen, sexy, and whip-smart.\" -- \u003cem\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTHISBE NISSEN is the author of a story collection, \u003ci\u003eOut of the Girls' Room and into the Night\u003c\/i\u003e, and two novels, \u003ci\u003eThe Good People of New York\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOsprey Island\u003c\/i\u003e. Her work has been published in the \u003ci\u003eIowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eAmerican Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. She teaches at Western Michigan University.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 7.9 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 22, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47443378536626,"sku":"9781328507983","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/1158454279d44801fffd0b3f03c0cef9.webp?v=1778690960","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/our-lady-of-the-prairie-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}