{"product_id":"on-borrowed-wings-9780743297837","title":"On Borrowed Wings","description":"\u003cb\u003eAdele Pietra has heard her mother say that her destiny is carved in the same brilliantly hued granite her father and brother cleave from the Stony Creek mine: she is to marry a quarryman.\u003c\/b\u003e But when Adele's brother, Charles, dies in a mining accident, Adele sees the chance to change her life. Enrolling at Yale as Charles, Adele assumes his identity -- and gender -- as a way to leave behind her mother's expectations and the limitations of her provincial Connecticut town. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e To her own surprise, hair chopped and chest bound, Adele falls in naturally with a lively crew of undergraduates: the Jewish Harry Persky with his slick Manhattan know-how, the quiet and mysterious legacy student Phineas, and the lanky, charismatic Wick. And in many ways, Adele faces her freshman year at Yale as would any undergraduate boy: she dreads invasive PE examinations and looks forward to dances, experiments with cigarettes and reads the classics. Through her work with a questionable eugenics professor and her friendship with a local Italian family, Adele confronts her class and ethnicity as never before, all the while fearing that both her crush on Wick and her mother's well-meaning interventions will put an end to her delicate masquerade. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e One part social history, one part comingof-age tale, \u003ci\u003eOn Borrowed Wings\u003c\/i\u003e is an impeccably researched first novel that transports us to 1930s Yale, showing us around through the eyes of an unlikely, appealing female narrator.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChandra Prasad\u003c\/b\u003e is the originator and editor of -- and a contributor to -- W. W. Norton's \u003ci\u003eMixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience\u003c\/i\u003e, which includes original pieces by Ruth Ozeki, Danzy Senna, and Rebecca Walker. Her other works include the novella \u003ci\u003eDeath of a Circus\u003c\/i\u003e, which Tom Perrotta hails as \"narrated with Dickensian verve, a keen eye for historical detail, and lots of heart,\" and the careers guide \u003ci\u003eOutwitting the Job Market\u003c\/i\u003e. Prasad is also the author of numerous articles, which have been published by the \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, among others. A graduate of Yale, she lives and works in Connecticut.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Atria Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51181765984530,"sku":"9780743297837","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_048cceed-cf5e-4a43-9074-4ce632ca6634.jpg?v=1744402307","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-borrowed-wings-9780743297837","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}