{"product_id":"thirty-girls-9780307279316","title":"Thirty Girls","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe lives of two young women fighting for salvation in the face of ruinous brutality and loss intertwine in this \"extraordinary [and] poetic\" (NPR) novel from the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eEvening\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A haunting portrayal.\"--\u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Clear and searing.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eECONOMIST \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEsther is a precocious Ugandan teenager who is abducted from her Catholic boarding school by Joseph Kony's rebels and, along with twenty-nine of her classmates, forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities in the Lord's Resistance Army. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJane is a sensual, idealistic American writer often waylaid by romantic pleasure who has come to Africa hoping to regain her center after a devastating marriage. Absorbed into a group of glamorous, nomadic expatriates in a landscape of singular beauty and intensity, Jane is reawakened. But she is on a journalistic mission as well, hoping to give voice to the thirty abducted girls she first heard about back in America. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn unflinching prose, Susan Minot interweaves the stories of these two astonishing young women who, as they confront displacement and heartbreak, are hurtled inexorably closer to one another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Minot\u003c\/b\u003e is an award-winning novelist, short-story writer, poet, and screenwriter. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eMonkeys, \u003c\/i\u003ewas published in a dozen countries and won the Prix Femina ?tranger in France. Her novel \u003ci\u003eEvening\u003c\/i\u003e was a worldwide bestseller and became a major motion picture. She lives with her daughter in New York City and on an island off the coast of Maine.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50902888743186,"sku":"9780307279316","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_4112b080-e97a-490f-b74a-d064cabc94a7.jpg?v=1738461628","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/thirty-girls-9780307279316","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}