{"product_id":"across-the-great-lake-9780299320942","title":"Across the Great Lake","description":"\u003ci\u003e\"It was a huge and powerful ship with a tall, handsome pilothouse and big smoking stacks, no place for a girl, though I loved it, I cannot tell you how much I loved it.\"\u003c\/i\u003e In her eighty-fifth year, Fern Halvorson tells the story of a childhood journey across Lake Michigan and the secret she has kept since that ill-fated voyage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As his wife lies dying in the brutally cold winter of 1936, Henrik Halvorsen takes his daughter Fern away with him. He captains a great coal-fired vessel, the \u003ci\u003eManitou\u003c\/i\u003e, transporting railroad cars across the icy lake. The five-year-old girl revels in the freedom of the ferry, making friends with a stowaway cat and a gentle young deckhand. The sighting of a ghost ship, though, presages danger for all aboard.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLee Zacharias is the author of four previous books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Only Sounds We Make\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLessons\u003c\/i\u003e, a Book of the Month Club selection. Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e series. Born in Chicago and raised in Hammond, Indiana, she is professor emerita of English at the University of North Carolina Greensboro.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Wisconsin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50681944473874,"sku":"9780299320942","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0b03f8c7-12b7-4421-b67e-6c3be92542f5.jpg?v=1737241742","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/across-the-great-lake-9780299320942","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}