{"product_id":"our-narrow-hiding-places-9780063352902","title":"Our Narrow Hiding Places","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn elderly woman recounts her Dutch family's survival during the final years of Nazi occupation, shedding new light on old secrets that rippled through subsequent generations. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEighty-year-old Mieke Geborn's life is one of quiet routine. Widowed for many years, she enjoys the view from her home on the New Jersey shore, visits with friends, and tai chi at the local retirement community. But when her beloved grandson, Will, and his wife, Teru, show up for a visit, things are soon upended. Their marriage is threatening to unravel, and Will has questions for his grandmother--questions about family secrets that have been lost for decades and are now finally rising to the surface.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut telling Will the truth involves returning to the past, and to Mieke's childhood in coastal Holland. There, in the last years of World War II, she survived the Hunger Winter, a brutal season when food and heat were cut off and thousands of Dutch citizens starved. Her memories weave together childhood magic and the madness of history, and carry readers from the windy beaches of the Hague to the dark cells of a concentration camp, through the bends of eel-filled rivers, and, finally, to the story of Will's father, absent since Will's childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Narrow Hiding Places\u003c\/em\u003e is a sweeping story of survival and of the terrible cost of war--and a reminder that sometimes the traumas we inherit come along with a resilience we never imagined.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJansma, Kristopher:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKristopher Jansma\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the novels \u003cem\u003eWhy We Came to the City\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Unchangeable Spots of Leopards\u003c\/em\u003e, the winner of the Sherwood Anderson Foundation Fiction Award and a Pushcart Prize, and the recipient of an honorable mention for the PEN\/Hemingway Award. His short fiction has been published in the \u003cem\u003eAlaska Quarterly Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eStory\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eZYZZYVA\u003c\/em\u003e. His nonfiction has been published in the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Sun, The Millions\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eReal Simple\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Believer\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/em\u003e. He is an associate professor of English and the director of the creative writing program at SUNY New Paltz.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589821792530,"sku":"9780063352902","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_73eacfbd-7ec9-4bd5-92c9-e51eb5c0539d.jpg?v=1756808518","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/our-narrow-hiding-places-9780063352902","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}