{"product_id":"the-home-maker-9780897330695","title":"The Home-Maker","description":"Evangeline Knapp is the perfect, compulsive housekeeper, while her husband, Lester, is a poet and a dreamer. Suddenly, through a nearly fatal accident, their roles are reversed: Lester is confined to home in a wheelchair and his wife must work to support the family.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNamed by Eleanor Roosevelt as one of the ten most influential women in the US, \u003cb\u003eDorothy Canfield Fisher\u003c\/b\u003e (1879 - 1958) brought the Montessori Method of child-rearing to America, presided over the country's first adult education program, and influenced American literary tastes as a member of the Book-of-the-Month Club selection committee from 1926 to 1951. A committed educational reformer and social activist, the popular Arlington, VT writer produced 22 works of fiction and 18 nonfiction books on a wide range of subjects. \u003cb\u003eMark J. Madigan\u003c\/b\u003e, who provides an introduction, teaches English at the University of Vermont and is editor of Fisher's \u003ci\u003eThe Bedquilt and Other Stories\u003c\/i\u003e (1995) and \u003ci\u003eKeeping Fires Night and Day: Selected Letters of Dorothy Canfield Fisher\u003c\/i\u003e (1993).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Academy Chicago Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50330340983058,"sku":"9780897330695","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9d6faa77-dd1d-4c91-8c83-7ddb71143cec.jpg?v=1727799008","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-home-maker-9780897330695","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}