{"product_id":"schroder-9781455512126","title":"Schroder","description":"\u003ch2\u003eSchroder by Amity Gaige - A Profound Literary Novel\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSchroder tells the gripping story of Eric Schroder, a first-generation East German immigrant who, while attending a New England summer camp as a young boy, adopts the last name Kennedy to fit in more easily. This seemingly innocent white lie sets him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course that will define his entire life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYears later, Eric finds himself on an urgent escape to Lake Champlain, Vermont, with his six-year-old daughter, Meadow. He attempts to outrun the authorities amid a heated custody battle with his wife, who will soon discover that her husband is not who he claims to be. From a correctional facility, Eric surveys the course of his life, attempting to understand and perhaps explain his behavior.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eA Story of Identity, Fatherhood, and Redemption\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough Eric's narrative, readers experience the painful separation from his mother in childhood, a harrowing escape to America with his taciturn father, and a romance that withered under a shadow of lies. The novel explores his proudest moments and greatest regrets as a flawed but loving father, creating a complex portrait of a man caught between the identities he was born with and those he constructed for himself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlternately lovesick and ecstatic, Amity Gaige's deftly imagined novel offers a profound meditation on history and fatherhood, examining the many identities we take on throughout our lives. This literary fiction explores themes of immigration, family dynamics, parental custody, and the consequences of deception with emotional depth and narrative skill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmity Gaige\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eSchroder\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Folded World\u003c\/i\u003e. Her essays, articles, and stories have appeared in various publications, including the \u003ci\u003eYale Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Literary Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOne Story\u003c\/i\u003e and in a 2009 collection of essays, \u003ci\u003eFeed Me\u003c\/i\u003e (Random House). She is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a McDowell Colony Fellowship, and a Baltic Writing Residency Fellowship, and is currently the Visiting Writer at Amherst College. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Twelve","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50680937513234,"sku":"9781455512126","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f108508-9566-4453-aa48-512afe58659b.jpg?v=1733946203","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/schroder-9781455512126","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}