{"product_id":"forever-valley-9780803289512","title":"Forever Valley","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis mesmerizing novel is about a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a rectory and works in a dance hall. Gradually she embarks upon a \"personal project\" she digs pits in the rectory garden and \"looks for the dead.\" Her story, which has brevity and magical intensity of a fairy tale, is marked equally by tragedy and dark humor. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eForever Valley\u003c\/i\u003e is one of three novels that are the first works to appear in English by Marie Redonnet, one of France's most original new authors (the other novels are \u003ci\u003eHôtel Splendid\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRose Mellie Rose\u003c\/i\u003e, both also available from the University of Nebraska Press). Translator Jordan Stump notes that these books \"unmistakably fit together, although they have neither characters nor setting in common.\" In all three novels, Redonnet has said, \"it is the women who fight, who seek, who create.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJordan Stump is a professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50726491128082,"sku":"9780803289512","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0dba397c-b434-49b8-b513-4e42a41a2ab2.jpg?v=1734871606","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/forever-valley-9780803289512","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}