{"product_id":"fatherland-9781324117551","title":"Fatherland","description":"\u003cp\u003eMartin and Lora Brier, with three young children, possess all the trappings of a perfect life . . . except Martin is having yet another affair. Without warning, he abandons the family for his mistress and a new house on the other side of town.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet in a prosperous midwestern town in the 1950s, \u003cem\u003eFatherland\u003c\/em\u003e is a story about the effect of convenient lies and discovered truths. While Martin's abandonment throws up new difficulties for bewildered Lora, a housewife, who must now find a way to nurture and provide for herself and children, it unleashes a swirl of emotions in their daughter, Josie, who struggles to come to term with his absence. \u003cem\u003eFatherland\u003c\/em\u003e follows Josie from this fateful event, across many decades and milestones and through the phases of her tenuous, emotionally fraught relationship with Martin--and the way she begins to move beyond their shared past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten in Victoria Shorr's inimitable clean, spare prose, \u003cem\u003eFatherland\u003c\/em\u003e is a powerful, layered novel of a family in the aftermath of deception.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShorr, Victoria:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eVictoria Shorr\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of four works of fiction, including the acclaimed novel \u003cem\u003eThe Plum Trees\u003c\/em\u003e, which was listed as a \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Recommended Historical Fiction selection for 2021. She lives in New York.","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52078146060562,"sku":"9781324117551","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_a404f76d-824a-4742-bcb5-c09e3943e505.jpg?v=1772529566","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/fatherland-9781324117551","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}