{"product_id":"now-in-november-9781668004227","title":"Now in November","description":"\u003cb\u003eA lost gem of twentieth-century literature, Josephine Johnson's 1934 Pulitzer Prize-winning \"exquisite...heartbreakingly real\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003enovel follows a year in the life of a family struggling to survive the Dust Bowl.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished when Josephine Johnson was only twenty-four years old, \u003ci\u003eNow in November \u003c\/i\u003emade Johnson the youngest ever winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1935. It is a beautifully told account of one farming family's challenges to scrape by and earn a living from mortgaged land over the course of a single year, narrated by one of three sisters--the introspective and thoughtful Margaret. As the household is ravaged by Depression-era hardship and the environmental blights of the Dust Bowl, the family's unique vulnerabilities are pushed to a breaking point. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a style typical of Johnson's body of work, \u003ci\u003eNow in November \u003c\/i\u003eis strikingly ahead of its time, grappling with questions of mental health, worker's rights, as well as gender, race, and class and is ready to be rediscovered by a new generation of readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJosephine W. Johnson (1910-1990) was a novelist and nature writer who in 1935 became the youngest person to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her first novel, \u003ci\u003eNow in November\u003c\/i\u003e. She began her studies at Washington University and went on to write eleven books over the course of her life. When it was originally published in 1969, \u003ci\u003eThe Inland Island, \u003c\/i\u003eher lyrical examination of a year on her rambling thirty-seven-acre farm in Ohio, became a beloved and critically acclaimed bestseller.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Scribner Book Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50604404277522,"sku":"9781668004227","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d623fcb3-8f0e-4f68-845e-723e863e745f.jpg?v=1732259612","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/now-in-november-9781668004227","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}